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Rains slows corn harvest and winter wheat planting in Argentina

Recent rains have slowed the harvest of soybeans and corn in Argentina as well as the planting of the winter wheat crop. According to the Grain Exchange of Buenos Aires, the 2018/19 soybean crop is 99.1% harvested with 150,000 hectares left…

Grain companies in Brazil may reduce credit for farmers

Grain companies in Brazil, who are members of the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (Abiove), have indicated that they intend to reduce the amount of credit offered to farmers for producing crops during the 2019/20 growing season.…

India could achieve 291 MT food grain by FY’19-20

Despite challenges of climate change and adversarial environmental conditions, India will be able to achieve 291 million tonne of food grain target for 2019-20. This was predicted by Dr S K Malhotra, agriculture commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture…

Agricultural collaboration between Vietnam & South Korea is booming

As part of Korea's strategy for the transfer of agricultural technology to developing countries, the Rural Development Administration (RDA) has been building agricultural R&D partnerships over the past two decades with counterparts from…

Parana hit hardest by soybean rust of any State in Brazil

Soybean producers in the state of Parana have noticed in recent years that their state has been recording the highest number of soybean rust cases of any state in Brazil. The anti-rust division of Embrapa confirmed again that the most cases…

Tunisia uses drone technology to secure agricultural lands

For the first time in Tunisia, drones will be used to secure the national grain harvest, Samir Taieb, Tunisian minister of agriculture, water resources and fisheries, announced on Monday. During an interview with the local radio station Mosaique…

USDA: 58% of corn planted, 29% of soybeans, far behind average

BrownfieldAgNews reports: Last week was another slow one for corn and soybean planting in most states as wet weather and flooding continued to impede progress. The USDA says 58% of corn is planted as of Sunday, compared to 49% a week ago…

Brazil's corn exports could exceed 30 million tons in 2019

Brazilian farmers are getting ready to harvest what they hope will be a very good safrinha corn crop. The safrinha corn crop is the second crop of corn planted after the first crop of soybeans are harvested and it will represent approximately…

European investment bank announces EUR 2 billion fund to finance agriculture

The European Investment Bank (EIB), the EU bank, announced recently the launch of a loans package of nearly EUR 1 billion for agriculture and the bioeconomy. The sum will be matched by the implementing financial institutions, thereby mobilizing…