Agriculture

Cargill Posts Fourth-Quarter Loss on Trading, Oilseed Crush

Cargill Inc., the U.S. agricultural giant, posted a fourth-quarter adjusted operating loss of $19 million partly because of wrong-way bets in soybean marke...

Jobs In The Spanish Agricultural Sector Fell 2.2% In Q2

The second quarter of 2016 has seen a decrease of 2.2% on employment in the Spanish agricultural sector compared to the first quarter, reports financi...

South American Weather Hurting Crops Is Driving Markets Crazy

It’s been a wild few weeks in the agriculture markets. Floods in Argentina and drought in Brazil have sent futures markets from Chicago to Paris i...

Billionaire Farmers Reap Fortunes From Russia Food Sanctions

Russia’s geopolitical conflicts, anemic oil prices and weakened ruble are working out rather well for the country’s biggest publicly traded far...

Japanese Whiskey At $920 A Bottle Driving Rice Farmers To Drink

Japan’s burgeoning whisky business is driving rice farmer Hiroshi Tsubouchi to hit the booze. With domestic rice consumption sliding, Tsubouchi, 3...

New Online Mapping Platform To Help Reduce Cost And Risk Of Investing In Africa’s Agriculture Sector

A new online mapping platform, developed by GRIinsight in partnership with Arcus Global, will help support agribusiness investment in the developing world....

Bearish Grain Market To Spur Agriculture Deals, BayWa Says

European agriculture markets are poised to see further consolidation as grain prices that have fallen in the past three years continue to decline, accordin...

Farmers Get Biggest US Subsidy Check In Decade As Prices Drop

The agriculture slump is getting so bad in the US that farmers are about to get more government aid than at any time in the past decade, signaling the risi...