Tag: grains

It doesn’t look like it: The recent price rally in farm commodities such as grains, oilseeds and sugar beet can be attributed partly to higher biofuel demand but their share of the blame has been exaggerated, a top official of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Loek Boonekamp, a division head in the […]

From ABC News Australia Hurricane impacts on US grains, cotton markets  Hurricane Katrina is wreaking havoc on the US grains market, with heavy selling overnight contributing to fears the export wheat crop could be held up by storm damage. New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are among the largest export and grain handling areas in […]