Oct 20, 2022 | News, Companies, Fertilizer
Yara restated a caution of “shortages and price spikes” in Europe’s nitrogen fertilizer market, as the group, while reporting bumper profits overall, said that high gas prices were keeping some factories in the region closed....
Read MoreOct 20, 2022 | Markets expresso, Companies, Wheat
High nitrogen prices have sure encouraged producers to lift their ambitions. Ahead of the Ukraine war – which supercharged rises in fertilizer prices, as it boosted European prices of key raw material natural gas, and...
Read MoreThe Rosario grains exchange cautioned of an “alarming” loss in Argentine wheat area, thanks to frost and drought which is in some the worst in at least 30 years, as it cut its harvest forecast to a seven-year low. The exchange...
Read MoreOct 19, 2022 | Markets expresso, Coffee
Uganda’s coffee industry just gained another enemy. To add to the dryness and the pests and ailments – root mealy bugs, coffee berry disease especially red blister disease and black coffee twig borer – which have depressed...
Read MoreOct 19, 2022 | Markets expresso, Wheat
Never mind the quality, feel the width. Australia’s ongoing wheat harvest may end up even bigger than many investors think. At least, if output in Western Australia, the top growing state, proves “massive”, as Ikon Commodities...
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