Corn Rallies to Highest Price This Month on Inventory Drop; Soybeans Gain

Commodity consumption rates continue to rise, prices are too.

Figures and futures for corn and soybeans in the US.

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New federal policy aims to expand US fish farming

The US government has decided to encourage domestic fish farming in the country's oceans in order to reduce dependence on imports.   What kind of impact will intensive ocean fish farming have on the ocean?

Wonder if they're considering implementing advanced techniques like the ones developed Grow Fish Anywhere -  Arazim has been working GFA to create a sustainable aquaculture market.


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A link to Grow Fish Anywhere, the startup that is developing and implementing a patented fully closed, zero discharge intensive aquaculture system that is suitable both for fresh and sea water fish.

Ethanol Industry Welcomes Compromise

Interesting changes proposed to the corn ethanol industry in the US.

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Clifford Krauss wrote a piece in the NYtimes on the proposed legislation (link above).

Agencies See Decade of High Food Prices

WSJ article from a few weeks ago predicting a sustained period of high food prices


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LONDON—Food prices will be up to 30% higher on average over the next decade as slowing

grains production fails to keep pace with rising demand, the Organization for Economic

Cooperation and Development said Friday.

Bayer Settles With Farmers Over Modified Rice Seeds

A bloomberg piece published on-line at NYtimes.com about a huge settlement of scores of lawsuits over GMO rice.

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A Bayer AG unit will pay $750 million to settle claims with about 11,000 United States farmers who said a strain of the company’s genetically modified rice tainted crops and ruined their export value.

G20 farm ministers tackle high food prices, agreeing to a watered-down declaration that fell short of France's proposals to tighten regulation of commodity markets.

Update:  looks like the other farm ministers weren't convinced to support France's push for new regulations


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(Reuters) - G20 farm ministers settled a deal on Thursday to tackle high food prices, agreeing to a watered-down declaration that fell short of France's ambitious proposals to tighten regulation of commodity markets.

G20 agriculture summit to discuss food security and regulating global markets

Rising food prices were discussed in Europe recently: interesting French position on tariffs and regulations.

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"World food prices that rose 37% in a year, driving 44 million more people into poverty, are a “plague” that needs action from world leaders now, said French President Nicolas Sarkozy during the two-day Group of 20 agriculture ministers in Paris." A market that is not regulated is not a market, it’s a lottery in which fortune smiles on the most cynical, instead of rewarding hard work, investment and the creation of value” underlined Sarkozy."