Goods Exports Up 9% In April-December '06 (RTTNews) - Thursday, India's agricultural goods exports grew 9% in the April- December period of 2006 despite lesser rate of growth witnessed in the farm sector and the export ban of commodities like pulses and drop in exports of wheat, diary and poultry products. Goods Exports Up 9% In April-December '06 (RTTNews) - Thursday, India's agricultural goods exports grew 9% in the April- December period of 2006 despite lesser rate of growth witnessed...

Edible oils have emerged as the favourite asset class among commodity market participants, as their prices have shot up in global and domestic markets in the past few weeks. The acreage of domestic oilseeds fell last year as farmers switched to more profitable crops such as pulses and wheat, leading to a decline of 17% in production of oilseeds. With the outlook being extremely bullish for the next few months, investors may find it profitable to bet on edible oil prices on domestic...

He estimated his winter wheat crop to average 40 bushels per acre, and his spring wheat crop at 50 bushels per acre, adding his barley looks good, too. Department of Agriculture last month show the world is down to a 71-day supply of wheat, the smallest in 25 years. Likewise, prices for hard red winter wheat and hard red spring wheat would have to be about $1. Stringer said Montana wheat farmers are poised to fill that gap and possibly reap a hefty profit. The wheat crop that year was...

wheat futures closed mixed Monday as market participants waited for more concrete results from the advancing winter wheat harvest, traders and analysts said. Department of Agriculture is slated to release an update on winter wheat harvesting at 4 p. Expansion of the hard red winter wheat harvest in the Texas Panhandle and north into Nebraska put a lid on gains in KCBT wheat futures, a floor trader said. Until the markets receive more information about harvest results, prices will likely...

Still the market remains nervous as wet weather may potentially harm maturing wheat fields. market relative to the French market. liffe wheat futures ended lower Monday in a slight downward correction from recent high levels. He added that as long as wheat stays standing, that quality should remain reasonably good. liffe agricultural markets, November corn ended up EUR1 at EUR179/ton, with 48 lots moved. French cash wheat prices were mostly lower. Still the declines came in relatively low...

Dry, hot weather that s in the Kansas forecast for the next few days is expected to spur harvest activity in the midst of some of the highest winter wheat prices in years. Ordinarily, wheat prices drop as the harvest goes on and supplies are replenished. While wheat prices briefly reached as high as $7 a bushel in 1994, what is different this season is that the increase is expected to last longer, said Mike Woolverton, a grain marketing economist at Kansas State University. Texas farmers...