Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is struggling to beat back his biggest political challenge in years from a protest movement which began with disgruntled farmers travelling to New Delhi on tractors and is now gaining wider support at home and abroad.
A shipload of Spanish cattle that had been drifting for months due to concerns over the bovine bluetongue disease docked in Spain on Thursday, the government said, but the fate of the animals remains unclear. The Karim Allah left the Mediterranean port of Cartagena on Dec. 17 carrying 895 cattle destined for sale in Turkey.
Wheat Slide Led By Weak Export Sales. Wheat for March delivery fell 1.4% to $6.75 3/ 4 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade Thursday, in reaction to low export sales, precipitation in South America, and overall choppiness in commodities trading. Soybeans for March delivery fell 1.3% to $14.07 1/ 2 a bushel.
Sanderson Farms Logs 1 Q Profit, Beats Analysts' Expectations. Sanderson Farms Inc. logged a profit for the first fiscal quarter and a 10% bump in its net sales. The Mississippi-based company reported a $9.5 million profit in the three months ended Jan. 31 compared with a $38.6 million loss a year earlier.
A shipload of Spanish cattle that had been drifting for months due to concerns over the bovine bluetongue disease docked in Spain on Thursday, the government said, but the fate of the animals remains unclear. The Karim Allah left the Mediterranean port of Cartagena on Dec. 17 carrying 895 cattle destined for sale in Turkey.
The International Grains Council raised its forecasts for global grain production in the 2020-21 on Thursday, thanks to stronger than expected wheat crops in Australia and the Black Sea region. The intergovernmental body said in its monthly grains market report that it now expects grains harvests to total 2.216 billion metric tons, six million tons more than it had last forecast. Larger than previously forecast wheat harvests in Australia, Russia and Kazakhstan drove the...
By Rhiannon Hoyle| Photographs by Philip Gostelow for The Wall Street Journal. SYDNEY--Alan Sattler had been in his tractor for three hours one morning last May, sowing hundreds of kilograms of barley seeds in Western Australia's arid wheat belt, when he received a text from his grain broker. China, his biggest market, was placing a punitive tariff on Australian barley.
Kazakhstan will permanently ban foreigners from owning or renting farmland in the vast Central Asian nation, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Thursday, ending a lengthy dispute that once prompted anti-government protests.
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