This would cause the US corn acreage toincrease to more than 110m acres, largely at the expense of soybean and wheat acres. It confirms thatgreater US ethanol production will meanmore competition for land and grain, and will subsequently cause long-run crop price increases. The magnitude of US ethanol market will depend on the price of oil - which is unlikely to decrease much from current levels - and the future makeup of the US automobile fleet. The reportsuggests that this rise in US...

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At the Wednesday meeting with the health watchdog, Kim Cuong, of Nosafood, one of the blacklisted 17, said in 2005, her company released a kind of soy sauce containing 3-MCDP within safety levels by using modern production techniques but it did not win customers as it was expensive and lacked flavor. The city Department of Health has recently blacklisted 17 soy sauce makers whose products contain dangerous levels of 3-MCPD, which can cause cancer, alter genes and affect fertility. At the...

In fact, 89 percent of the state s corn crop has been planted, the highest percentage since records began in 1980, the National Agricultural Statistics Service s Wisconsin field office said Monday in its weekly crop report. The agency said 61 percent of Wisconsin s soybean crop has been planted, compared with 44 percent a year ago and a five-year average of 37 percent. Corn and soybean planting in Wisconsin is ahead of normal after two weeks of good weather. He guessed 40 percent of the...

CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures are seen starting Wednesday's day session lower, continuing the overnight theme, with favorable crop progress and weakness in outside vegoil markets expected to attract profit taking pressure. CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures are seen starting Wednesday's day session lower, continuing the overnight theme, with favorable crop progress and weakness in outside vegoil markets expected to attract profit...