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While commodity prices took a beating again Friday, most blame jittery world markets more than the much-anticipated U.S. Department of Agriculture world supply and demand report, also out Friday.
On the Chicago Board of Trade, corn, soybean and wheat prices traded erratically after the report estimated growers will harvest the nation's largest corn crop since 1933.
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... of the future.” Ethanol distilled from corn was used for illumination in America before the Ci... Belt after the Arab oil embargo caused oil prices to skyrocket. Ethanol received research and develo...(Corn spot prices on the Chicago Board of Trade were $3.85 a bushel, which increase...
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On January 26, 2011, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'' or ``CFTC'') published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking (``proposal'' or ``Proposed Rules''), which establishes a position limits regime for 28 exempt and agricultural commodity futures and options contracts and the physical commodity swaps that are economically equivalent to such contracts. The Commission is adopting the Proposed Rules, with modifications.
... participants; (2) imposing clearing and trade execution requirements on standardized derivative ... price discovery function''; and (3) foreign board of trade (``FBOT'') contracts that are price-linke... sudden or unreasonable fluctuations in prices. Instead, the Commission must set position limits ... Core Referenced Futures Contracts are: Chicago Board of Trade (``CBOT'') Corn, Oats, Rough Rice, ...
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FORT MADISON, Iowa -- The swollen Mississippi River ran over the top of at least 12 more levees Wednesday, as floodwaters swallowed up more U.S. farmland, adding to billion-dollar losses and feeding global food inflation fears.
Volunteers and aid workers were piling sandbags up and down the most important U.S. inland waterway to try to protect more levees and thousands of acres of prime crop land threatened as the river's crest moves south after last week's torrential rains.
...Chicago Board of Trade corn prices traded at a record $8.0...
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BLOOMINGTON - Last month, corn prices surged after the government surprised the market with lower yield expectations. On Tuesday, it was soybeans' turn.
Soybean futures surged to their highest levels in two years Tuesday, as rising demand in China collided with the surprising U.S. Department of Agriculture report lowering the U.S. bean production forecast by 33 million bushels, to 3.38 billion. That would still be a record, if realized.
... bean futures rose 54 cents Tuesday at the Chicago Board of Trade, closing at $13.36. Last month, cor...
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...beef packers resulting in lower prices paid to cattle suppliers and higher beef prices fo... antitrust lawsuit in US District Court in Chicago on October 20, 2008, to block the proposed acquisi...-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM) and Minnesota Corn Producers, LLC (MCP).6 DOJ opposed the acquisitio... opportunities for manipulation of Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybean futures prices." . Fu...
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The surging demand for ethanol continues to drive construction of plants to make the home-grown fuel additive. It's also fueling farmers' hopes for better corn prices, although some remain skeptical of ethanol's staying power.
Corn is the main ingredient for ethanol, which is mixed with gasoline to make motor fuel. A bushel of corn produces about 2.8 gallons of ethanol.
... supplies and lift corn prices on the Chicago Board of Trade to some of the highest levels in 10...
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A recent surge in corn futures and other commodity prices has triggered concerns about potential jump in food prices, but grocers and food producers say any such increases likely wouldn't come until after the holiday season, if at all.
In the latest commodities-market lurch, corn prices dropped in early October, then soared later in the month, in response to changing assessments by the federal government of grain supplies and coming harvests, according to the New York Times. Experts told the Times that the impact on food prices could be much greater if next year's harvest disappoints and if 2011 grain harvests in the Southern Hemisphere also fall short of the current robust expectations. Corn futures on the Chicago Board of Trade earlier this month reached $5.84 a bushel in trading, abo...
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Two big reasons for the interest in soybeans have been strong market prices and the cost of fertilizer," says John Anderson, agricultural economist with Mississippi State University's Extension Service.
... in national expectations for soybeans and corn. An increase in the soybean predictions had an imm..."Futures prices on corn at The Chicago Board of Trade rose fairly sharply following the r...