The wage inflation which is concerning central banks and investors worldwide spurred a 62% jump in trading losses at Camellia’s tea operations, as pickers forced an international round of double-digit pay rises. Shares in...
Read MoreSep 1, 2022 | Cocoa, Coffee, Corn and coarse grains, Cotton, Dairy, News, Soybeans and oilseeds, Sugar, Wheat
Cotton cut its shackles to the economic pulse to prove August’s top ag performer. Futures in the fibre might have been expected to dip, given its status as an industrial ag, and the mounting worries over recession and rising...
Read MoreSep 1, 2022 | Markets expresso, Cocoa, Coffee, Corn and coarse grains, Cotton, Dairy, Soybeans and oilseeds, Sugar, Wheat
The table below shows the major ag commodity futures contracts, ranked by price performance last month, with some other assets, such as gold and oil, included for comparison. For a commentary on the month’s ag market...
Read MoreAug 31, 2022 | Cotton, Analysis, Corn and coarse grains, News, Soybeans and oilseeds, Wheat
Cotton is going to have to work harder for acres. Other crops have won the opening exchanges of the battle for acres in the 2023 US spring planting season, if a Farm Futures survey has it right. Cotton, which will end 2022-23...
Read MoreAug 31, 2022 | News, Cocoa, Coffee, Corn and coarse grains, Cotton, Soybeans and oilseeds, Sugar, Wheat
The world faces its first “triple dip” La Nina of the century, the World Meteorological Organization said, foreseeing that the weather event, which kicked off in September 2020, could last into 2023. The United Nations agency,...
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