SOYBEANS: The market found support overnight from overflow buying from wheat and corn, as a wet and cool outlook for corn planting progress and potential damage to the winter wheat crop over the weekend helped support solid gains. Weekly export sales reached a marketing year low last week, with China buying just 20,600 tonnes and a cancellation of 214,000 tonnes from an unknown destination. If the trade views the weather as bad enough to delay corn plantings until it is too late to plant,...

Terence Corcoran, Financial Post Published:Tuesday, April 10, 2007 The latest "science" report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change landed Friday, but it contains not a word on the latest climate-science fiasco. Somewhere there should have been a typical IPCC alarm-riddled sentence to alert us to a very real and immediate climate crisis: the ethanol-food disaster. Terence Corcoran, Financial Post Published:Tuesday, April 10, 2007 The latest "science" report from the...

Delta and Pine Land co., a commercial breeder, producer and marketer of cotton planting seed, Monday said it swung to a loss in its fiscal second quarter on a plunge in revenue as farmers shifted their planned crop plantings to corn. Delta and Pine Land said domestic sales volumes declined due to customer indecision related to planting intentions, as higher corn prices have increased the number of anticipated acres planted to corn. Corn is being planted in record-breaking amounts this year...

MORE STORIES By Mike Rudeen, Rocky Mountain News April 9, 2007 Why does microwave popcorn have nutritional information for both popped and unpopped servings? They vary greatly and besides, who eats unpopped popcorn anyway? - Ron Chalk that up to a quirk in federal regulations. MORE STORIES By Mike Rudeen, Rocky Mountain News April 9, 2007 Why does microwave popcorn have nutritional information for both popped and unpopped servings? They vary greatly and besides, who eats unpopped popcorn...

Maybe it's because they have yet to witness the local ethanol plant using much of the corn they use to feed, but as a group they haven't gotten the message yet. Using the settlement prices on April 5 and the historic basis for the eastern Corn Belt, futures were suggesting an average price closer to $51 over the next 12 months. Lean hog futures are more optimistic, which means producers could establish about a $2 per hundredweight profit margin by hedging lean hog futures and feed prices....

The ministry predicts up to 5 million tonnes of rice will have to be exported in order to raise the average household income to between US$700 and 750 a year. The Delta should produce more corn as well and increase the area under the crop to 200,000 ha, according to the ministry. Officials are suggesting farmers only plant two crops of rice and a third crop of vegetables, instead of three, and invest in high quality rice species that are resistant to common diseases and insects. Ministry...