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Japanese Zen-Noh Buys Stake In Brazilian Joint Venture

Zen-Noh Grain Brazil, the local subsidiary of the Japanese Zen-Noh Grain Corporation, is now a member of the Brazilian Amaggi and Louis Dreyfus joint ventu...

Driscoll's Berry Of The Future, Picked By Agrobots?

On a wall at the Watsonville, California, headquarters of Driscoll's, Inc., the nearly $3 billion global berry brand, dozens of little green trucks move ab...

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...

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...

Diminished Asparagus Production In Spain Raises Prices

As a poor asparagus season in Granada continues, experts now say that only 30 per cent of the expected harvest is likely to be obtained this year. This...

South African Citrus Growers Spend $66 Million On Disease Curbs

South Africa’s citrus industry is spending more than 1 billion rand ($66 million) annually to control black-spot disease in fruit from the country, a...

Monsanto Profit Declines Amid Weak Agricultural Markets

Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed company, posted its smallest fiscal second-quarter profit since 2011 as a global slump in agricultural commodi...