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EU Farmers Battle Parched Soil To Harvest Smaller Sugar Beet Crop

A continuing lack of rain in Europe has slowed sugar beet harvesting as farmers struggle to lift the crop from parched soil, which could further shrink yie...

Ivorian Cocoa Farmers Welcome Dry Spell Ahead Of Main Crop Harvest

Below average rainfall in most of Ivory Coast’s main cocoa regions last week is likely to boost harvests for the October-to-March main crop, farmers...

Weather Woes Ravage Europe's Wheat Fields, Markets Race Higher

Scorching temperatures have devastated wheat fields across northern Europe while a combination of dry conditions and extreme rain in the Black Sea bread ba...

Cheer For Beer Brewers As World Hop Harvest Looks Good

Brewers will get a good supply of hops, a key beer ingredient, this year as the world hop harvest is likely to reach a reasonable size, although slightly s...

Cuba Hopes To Avoid Importing Sugar; Will Reduce Future Exports

Cuba, short on sugar for domestic consumption after a disastrous harvest, hopes to avoid importing by drawing on its reserves and plans to begin the coming...

Rain Brings Wheat Relief In Australia's West

Relieved farmers in Australia's export-focused west are celebrating good rainfall at the end of the winter wheat-planting window, although conditions remai...

Italy Set For Historical Record For Wine Exports

Italian wine exports have grown by 7% in value and could reach €6 billion by the end of 2017 – a new historical record. The forecast comes fr...

Asda Anticiaptes Promising Pumpkin Harvest

UK retailer Asda has said that it anticipates pumpkin sales to be 61% higher this season than they were two years ago. In fact, with the harvest al...