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Argentina says ‘worried’ about flooded soy fields

By Reuters, GFM Network News March 6, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Flooding in some of the soy-growing areas of Cordoba, Entre Rios and Santa Fe provinces has become “worrying” to the government as farmers get ready to start harvesting the 2014-15 crop, the agriculture ministry said in its weekly report on Friday. The northern part of the Pampas grains belt has […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Soybeans, Weather

Floods in Argentina expected to cause soy crop losses

By Reuters, GFM Network News March 5, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Some of Argentina’s northern soy-growing areas were flooded by heavy rains in the past week, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said Thursday, warning that it may lower its 57 million-tonne 2014-15 harvest forecast in the coming weeks. The country is the world’s No. 3 soybean exporter and top supplier of […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Argentine farmers to halt crop sales for three days in protest

By GFM Network News March 4, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Argentine farmers will suspend grain sales for three days to protest export quotas and other government policies they say hurt profits, the country’s main growers’ organizations said Tuesday. The strike will start on Wednesday, March 11, leaders of three of Argentina’s biggest farm groups told a press conference. “This action […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Soybeans

Argentina tracks soy hoarding by registering silo bag sales

By GFM Network News March 2, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina will keep an eye on how much soy is being hoarded on farms throughout the country by requiring that the sales of silo bags be reported to tax authorities, according to a government resolution announced Monday. The oblong industrial-strength plastic bags have come to dot the Pampas grains belt […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Weather

Optimism for Canada to plant 100K acres to sunflowers

By GFM Network News February 17, 2015

CNS Canada — Wet weather may have cost western Canadian producers 20,000 acres of sunflowers last year, according to one industry watcher who’s hopeful 2015 will be a little kinder. “We were anticipating over 100,000 acres last year and as it turned out we came into that 80,000 range,” said Ben Friesen, purchasing manager for […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Argentina to restrict wheat export permits if low prices paid

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 31, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Wheat exporters who buy the grain from Argentina’s farmers will not be issued permits if they pay the growers significantly less than the international price for the crop, the government said Friday. The announcement, by Economy Minister Axel Kicillof, followed complaints by local producers that government restrictions on wheat exports […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Argentina’s ‘Soy King’ abdicates in favor of biotech

By GFM Network News January 16, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– The company that led the breakneck expansion of Argentine soy cultivation over the last two decades has quietly reduced the area it farms by more than half as inflation, trade restrictions and high taxes drain growers’ profits. Los Grobo, once known as the South American country’s “King of Soy” has […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Argentina denounces farmer soy hoarding, says hurts state income

By GFM Network News January 9, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentine growers hoarding soybeans to protect themselves from inflation are hurting both state and farm income in the world’s No. 3 exporter of the oilseed, a top government official said Thursday. The South American country pioneered the use of plastic horizontal silos to stockpile grains. Growers are hanging onto soybeans, […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Striking port workers in Argentine grains hub halt shipping

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 18, 2014

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Port workers in part of the Argentine grain hub of Rosario went on strike on Thursday to demand a year-end bonus, paralyzing ship movements, said the head of the powerful CGT union’s local branch. Wage increases are lagging behind Argentina’s soaring inflation rate, which some private economists estimate is around […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

Argentine state bank to cut off farmers who hoard soy

By GFM Network News December 13, 2014

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina’s main state bank will deny credit to farmers who are holding onto soybeans as a hedge against inflation, a top official said on Friday, as the government cracks down on crop hoarding as part of a campaign to build up its dollar reserves. The grains-rich but cash-poor South American […] Read more

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Tag Archives Argentina

Argentina says ‘worried’ about flooded soy fields

Floods in Argentina expected to cause soy crop losses

Argentine farmers to halt crop sales for three days in protest

Argentina tracks soy hoarding by registering silo bag sales

Optimism for Canada to plant 100K acres to sunflowers

Argentina to restrict wheat export permits if low prices paid

Argentina’s ‘Soy King’ abdicates in favor of biotech

Argentina denounces farmer soy hoarding, says hurts state income

Striking port workers in Argentine grains hub halt shipping

Argentine state bank to cut off farmers who hoard soy

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