KEY RATING DRIVERS Agribusiness Segment Concentration Bunge has a leading position in oilseed processing and logistics, and accordingly the agribusiness segment contributes the vast majority of overall operating income.
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LONDON/HAMBURG (Reuters) - U.S. agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM.
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One target in particular has been the agribusiness giant Monsanto.
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ChemChina has a much smaller presence in agribusiness than Monsanto.
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His agribusiness advisers stopped Trump from moving forward on COOL.
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Agribusiness isn't thrilled, as it stands to lose the most.
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Warren and Sanders have both proposed breaking up big agribusiness.
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She had just completed a master's degree in agribusiness management.
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The report had GMO critics and the agribusiness community buzzing.
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Pedro Fernandes, head of agribusiness at investment bank Itaú BBA, said during a presentation for journalists that sugar and ethanol companies represent the most important part of Itau Unibanco's agribusiness loan book, declining to elaborate.
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Agribusiness companies are already feeling the effects of farmers' changing plans.
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It would eventually create three spinoffs, including an independent agribusiness unit.
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The agribusiness firm has begun marketing the notes at 9.25-9.50%.
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The other sector in which we are very competitive is agribusiness.
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Bunge's agribusiness earnings slumped nearly 12 percent in the fourth quarter.
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Four major agribusiness mergers have been announced in the last year.
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Small organic family farms increasingly lose out to international agribusiness conglomerates.
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Those changes are good news for members of the agribusiness community.
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So far, no major agribusiness consultancy has revised output forecasts lower.
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Next year, agribusiness exports will account for 50 percent, CNA predicted.
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But livestock isn't the only agribusiness playing a role in deforestation.
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Agribusiness and the deforestation of the Amazon are inextricably linked issues.
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Several members of the agribusiness coalition are joining the presidential trip.
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"This is the first time in Westpac's 200-year history that we have set aside such an amount to provide immediate and long-term financial relief to our agribusiness customers," National Agribusiness Manager at Westpac said.
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The wave of agribusiness mergers and acquisitions is likely to continue rolling.
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No, I'm not the hard-partying heir to a Brazilian agribusiness fortune.
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It would be replaced by greener industries, such as agribusiness, he says.
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Agribusiness and food companies are incorporating climate science into their business models.
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They also face pressure from land grabs and competition from global agribusiness.
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Agribusiness giants have tried to protect themselves by consolidating to reduce costs.
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The modern era of agribusiness has placed immense economic pressure on farmers.
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Parente, a former agribusiness executive, took the helm of Petrobras last year.
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Ample world supply is likely to persist, predicts agribusiness giant Cargill Inc.
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Of course, CNH isn't the only company betting on an agribusiness rebound.
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Mexican and Canadian markets are very important to American farmers, ranchers, and agribusiness.
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But more recently, DOJ has become much more active in scrutinizing agribusiness mergers.
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In 2013, the network launched Rural Radio, its agribusiness and rural lifestyle channel.
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From migrant workers to big wheels in agribusiness, the season covers them all.
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Foods, one of the world's largest agribusiness firms before being sold to a
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Agribusiness has also transmogrified beans into goods such as ink, carpeting and biodiesel.
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Agribusiness giant Monsanto took its biggest loss in five years, hurting materials companies.
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BRAZIL'S BOLSONARO SAYS IF THEY HURT OUR AGRIBUSINESS SECTOR, THEY HURT OUR ECONOMY
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However, that positive take on NAFTA isn't shared by all the agribusiness players.
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That's one reason agribusiness giants Tyson and Cargill have invested in Memphis Meats.
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The law has prompted criticism and lawsuits from the industrial and agribusiness sectors.
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"Diversification is prudent," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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Mr. Perdue is a former grain trader with ties to large agribusiness interests.
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She had just completed her master's degree in agribusiness management three weeks ago.
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Of course, Mr. Bolsonaro's agribusiness-friendly agenda should not be seen in isolation.
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We've seen incredible growth across job sectors — in aerospace, agribusiness, logistics and life sciences.
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He has dismissed reservations as an impediment to agribusiness, one of his top supporters.
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Agribusiness results were expected to slip while food and ingredients earnings were seen improving.
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The agribusiness giant owns Slim Jim, Healthy Choice, and Orville Redenbacher, among other names.
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But it is an uphill task amid agribusiness dominated by monoculture and chemical inputs.
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This year, Noble raised $750 million by selling its stake in an agribusiness venture.
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Bunge was forced to lower agribusiness earnings guidance for three straight quarters in 2017.
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Agribusiness giant Charoen Pokphand Foods also said none of its workers had gone home.
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"Agribusiness, without a doubt, is part of life for Brazilians," Lima told VICE News.
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Key agribusiness in his district includes the production of almonds, grapes, cattle and citrus.
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Members of his close and extended family are prominent in agribusiness in the region.
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In 2018, Brazilian agribusiness exports to Saudi Arabia totaled $1.7 billion, the statement said.
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Or will some vegan Pac-Man force global agribusiness to farm ecologically resilient produce?
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Roberts and agribusiness health and safety advocates also raise concerns about animals roaming outdoors.
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Agribusiness is among the top contributors to deforestation, which decimates wildlife populations, scientists say.
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Agribusiness company Scales Corp and dairy firm a2Milk Co Ltd lost about 2% each.
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Matt Johnson's agribusiness opinions differ quite a bit from the average long-hauling Iowan.
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Shares of Singapore-listed agribusiness group Wilmar International tumbled 20.14 percent in late-afternoon trading.
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And closer coordination between local governments, villagers and agribusiness companies has helped reduce fire risks.
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For decades ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus—the ABCDs of agribusiness—were unavoidable middlemen.
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China has canceled major Canadian agribusiness Richardson International Ltd's registration to ship canola to China.
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A spokesman for Monsanto, the company behind Roundup, said the agribusiness will appeal the ruling.
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In accepting its Chinese suitor, Syngenta spurned a rival offer from Monsanto, an agribusiness giant.
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These technological advances allowed society to move from small farms and agrarian lifestyles to agribusiness.
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Getting a loan requires that the person be an active member of an agribusiness network.
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An official at Beijing Capital Agribusiness said the company did not participate in the bidding.
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The paper, while certainly divisive among economists and agribusiness experts, certainly seems to suggest so.
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Consequently, EBIT in Agribusiness declined to $450 million in 05003H16 from $494 million in 1H15.
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Their 1982 book Farm Workers, Agribusiness, and the State is a classic on both subjects.
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EXCLUSIVE-BRAZIL AGRIBUSINESS GROUPS RESIST PROPOSED MORATORIUM TO PROTECT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, CITING LEGAL CONCERNS -SOURCES
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That leaves it to organic farmers and agribusiness to make decisions about raising organic animals.
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Last-minute endorsements from the influential evangelical lobby and agribusiness leaders gave him a boost.
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"People are starting to get worried," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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Mr. Bolsonaro also benefited from last-minute endorsements from evangelicals and the powerful agribusiness industry.
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But that could soon change if the power of the agribusiness lobby is not checked.
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While this system serves global agribusiness well, it is rapidly squeezing farmers and the planet.
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Several big agribusiness, grocery and telecom companies call the city home, and it's no surprise.
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The rise of agribusiness has hurt small farmers—and lowered food prices in the supermarket.
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Stan Koolen, 19, an agribusiness student, said he was convinced Mr. Rutte's party would win.
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The agribusiness sector, which accounts for more than 20 percent of Brazil's $1.9 trillion economy, has been traditionally dominated by Banco do Brasil and large private bank Banco Bradesco SA. Santander's agribusiness loan portfolio stands at 40.5 billion reais ($12.31 billion), the bank said.
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An official at Beijing Capital Agribusiness Group said the company did not participate in the bidding.
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Before his appointment in 291 Youssef Chahed was an obscure economist with a doctorate in agribusiness.
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You can petition businesses not to support agribusiness or materials mined from Brazil that promote deforestation.
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Agribusiness interest groups have been counting on him to carry that torch into the Trump administration.
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Odebrecht Agroindustrial SA, the agribusiness arm, restructured debt last year and showed improved performance, Guidolin said.
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Campaigners say native groups are struggling with encroachment by governments and logging, mining and agribusiness companies.
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"This is partly because Food & Agribusiness products are subject to veterinary and phytosanitary controls," it said.
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"There is plenty of downside risk to production," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness analyst, National Australia Bank.
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He also said the Republican has been helpful in curbing legislation that is harmful to agribusiness.
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Bunge forecast 2017 agribusiness earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of $425 million to $500 million.
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In both countries, some mining and agribusiness companies are backed by paramilitary groups, Mr. Kyte said.
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The farm group projected 2018 growth for Brazil's agribusiness sector between 0.5 percent and 1 percent.
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Mergers in the agribusiness sector are seen as another potential remedy for the oversupply of grains.
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Yet from India to Brazil, indigenous communities are often threatened by logging, mining and agribusiness companies.
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Home to Disney World and Nascar's Daytona 500, low-wage jobs supporting tourism and agribusiness predominate.
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Only agribusiness is expected to grow at the same rate, 2.9%, as predicted three months ago.
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And for decades, Nigeria was using that revenue to import food while its own agribusiness declined.
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Jeff Keiser, a manager for agribusiness solutions at the Weather Company, knows more than agriculture analytics.
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The agribusiness accounted for nearly 71 percent of the company's total net sales of $11.42 billion.
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President Giammattei should take advantage of Guatemala's untapped potential, including the agribusiness, mining and tourism industries.
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Previously, Kleboth was the EBRD's regional head of agribusiness for Turkey and Central Asia based in Istanbul.
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Some of the year's biggest takeover offers were in agribusiness, led by Bayer's $13bn approach to Monsanto.
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Agricultural credit from public-sector banks increased significantly in the past two decades — benefiting agribusiness, not farmers.
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Last September Olam, a multinational agribusiness firm listed in Singapore, opened two large feed mills in Nigeria.
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But campaigners say native groups are struggling with encroachment by governments and logging, mining and agribusiness companies.
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Land O'Lakes promoted Ford from chief operating officer to head the Fortune 500 agribusiness and food company.
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"It is just a little bit early," said Greg Grow, director of agribusiness at Archer Financial Services.
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"World wheat market is still pretty well supplied," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness analyst at National Australia Bank.
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China has also canceled Canadian agribusiness Richardson International Ltd's registration to ship canola to China this year.
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His experience in government and agribusiness have heartened large-scale producers, commodity traders, and industrial food processors.
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The company also slashed its full-year agribusiness earnings target because of slow selling by Brazilian farmers.
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Santander's loans to farmers and agribusiness companies stood at 9 billion reais at the end of 2016.
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Bunge reported a better-than-expected third-quarter profit, helped by higher margins from its agribusiness division.
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The ChemChina bid came after Syngenta rejected a proposal from U.S. agribusiness giant Monsanto Co last year.
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Much of this is concentrated inland, where agribusiness millionaires share the roads with a multiethnic working population.
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National Australian Bank agribusiness economist Phin Ziebell forecasts a yield of 26.1 million tonnes in 2016/17.
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Some analysts blamed a recently installed team of retail and finance executives for ignoring its agribusiness roots.
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While Brazil's economy is mired in a long slump, agribusiness has remained largely resilient during the crisis.
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This kind of investment in Brazil also empowers the country's powerful agribusiness lobby, known as the ruralistas.
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In spite of these challenges, Guatemala does have enormous potential in the mining, agribusiness and tourism industries.
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Brazilian pundits talk about the triad of "Bible, bullets, and beef": religious conservatives, gun rights activists, and agribusiness.
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Clients include local firms, such as Honeywell, and global names, including Unilever, DHL and international agribusiness firm Olam.
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"With one-digit interest rates, private banks have an important role to play in agribusiness financing," he said.
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ON DECEMBER 10TH Bunge, an American agribusiness giant, announced plans to replace both its chairman and its CEO.
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"Arguably the most bullish longer-term theme in the agribusiness sector is global vegetable protein demand," she said.
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But in the Philippines, disputes linked to agribusiness led to half of the killings, according to the research.
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Two-way agribusiness benefits both countries and helps fulfill Trump's commitment to expand economic activity in rural America.
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Squawk Box Live tracked reaction to news that ChemChina offered to buy Swiss agribusiness Syngenta for $43 billion.
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Shares in agribusiness investment company Zeder Investments, which holds Pioneer as part of its portfolio, also rose 23.17%.
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"Wheat prices are giving some of last week's gains," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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He said the company had already signed contracts to sell self-autonomous vehicles to be used in agribusiness.
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Simply calling for expanded exports to benefit global agribusiness is a longstanding failed profitability strategy for most farmers.
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Labor historians and husband-and-wife team Linda and Theo Majka are authorities on bracero and big agribusiness.
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Bolsonaro's new minister of agriculture, a representative of the agribusiness lobby, had advocated abolishing the quilombos' legal status.
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Corn is a particularly important crop for agribusiness because it requires more fertilizer than others such as soybeans.
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In order to govern as he wants to, Bolsonaro relies heavily on the support of the agribusiness community.
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Dairy producer A2 Milk fell 3.3% at close, while agribusiness firm Scales Corp Ltd ended about 1% down.
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The administration really has no assurance that agribusiness won't demand more and more, just as they always have.
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"There are some unwinding of positions weighing on prices," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia.
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The Chinese giant is refinancing some debt backing its $44 billion purchase of Syngenta, the Swiss agribusiness company.
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Long before Mr. Bolsonaro's rise, numerous agribusiness companies made commitments to end Amazon deforestation from their supply chains.
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Bunge's trading operation is a part of the larger agribusiness unit that also includes oilseeds and grain processing.
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N), the U.S. agribusiness group, said it would buy a corn wet mill in Morocco from Tate & Lyle (TATE.
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"The corn crop is looking better than what had been feared," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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She emphasized the attention currently focused on fixing power and transport to boost manufacturing, agribusiness and the export sector.
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It's already partnered with agribusiness giants such as ADM, from whom it's raised some $60 million in venture funding.
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The rapid pace of consolidation in the agribusiness industry means just three big players could soon dominate the sector.
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"We are in a waiting game ahead of the signing," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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For example, the agricultural bent of the region around Puerto Chiapas, it is hoped, may spur investments in agribusiness.
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Terragon clients include local firms, such as Honeywell, and global names including Unilever, DHL and international agribusiness firm Olam.
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It has been a nightmare for one of America's oldest sports that has grown into a multibillion-dollar agribusiness.
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But when it comes to agribusiness, the president has been very vocal in the past about Canada's dairy industry.
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The agribusiness giant Monsanto rejected an offer from the German company Bayer worth $62 billion, or $122 a share.
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Third, the EPA could require agribusiness to report GHGs (methane) emitted by cattle as part of the digestive process.
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The closing sets the stage for the 117-year-old agribusiness brand name "Monsanto" to be dropped by Bayer.
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It does not, however, address the environmental argument: that such companies are incentivizing large-scale agribusiness to continue overproducing.
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Aqua, which has made growth-stage investments in the sector of agribusiness, food and logistics, is counting on that.
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The clear winners from this system are agribusiness buyers accessing cheap grain and feed while operating in global markets.
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"Soybeans are getting a bit of a boost from Chinese buying," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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The city's economic backbone — agribusiness and tourism — has held up relatively well, but youth unemployment remains around 40 percent.
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"If we keep up in this rhythm in this agribusiness model, the deforestation of the planet will come soon."
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According to the Center for Agribusiness & Economic Development, the value of Georgia's agriculture products in 2016 was $13.75 billion.
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The meatpacking investigation also casts doubt on Brazil's agribusiness industry, a relatively resilient pillar of the nation's weak economy.
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Agribusiness is one of the fastest growing sectors of Brazil's economy and Meirelles said its continued success requires more investment.
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John Urbanchuk, a professor of agribusiness at Delaware Valley, said since the milk boom in 20123, prices have dropped rapidly.
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Brazil is monitoring the talks to assess how the outcome can affect Brazil on the global agribusiness stage, Dias said.
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Today, she's the first vice president of American Agri-Women, the nation's largest coalition of farm, ranch and agribusiness women.
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It has attracted interest from some of the world's largest agribusiness firms, including Archer Daniels Midland Co and Bunge Ltd.
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The Swiss agribusiness firm is delaying into 2017 its deal with ChemChina to allow competition authorities to conclude their work.
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Dr. Eleni Gabre-Madhin is founder and chief executive of blueMoon, Ethiopia's first youth agribusiness/agritech incubator and seed investor.
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Paap also said it was welcome news for Minnesota's agribusiness that Peterson would chair the agriculture panel in the House.
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Women across the continent are taking matters into their own hands, and kickstarting an enthusiasm for agribusiness among young people.
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Much larger Archer Daniels Midland Co, a global agribusiness that's also a top ethanol producer, is up about 14 percent.
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"They are true challenges," says Vernon Crowder, a senior analyst with a focus on food and agribusiness research for Rabobank.
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Bunge said fourth-quarter 2017 sales in its agribusiness segment fell 3.5 percent to $7.90 billion even as volumes rose.
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Fitch expects FCF remaining modestly negative in 2016 due to working capital requirements and earnings pressure in the agribusiness segment.
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The Batista family, through holding J&F Investimentos SA, has stakes in pulp, agribusiness, cosmetics, home cleaning products and finance.
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If Brazil becomes a pariah on the global climate agenda, it would be extremely bad for our business, especially agribusiness.
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And the market is following their lead, with clean-meat startups and agribusiness giants investing in alternatives to animal protein.
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His cousin Erai Maggi Scheffer displaced him as the so-called soy king with his rival agribusiness group Bom Futuro.
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John Vaske, head of Temasek's agribusiness investments team, said Bayer's operating metrics had mostly held in line with Temasek's expectations.
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European antitrust regulators opened an in-depth investigation into Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto, its American agribusiness rival, in August.
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Westlands, a powerful California agribusiness group, was one of Mr. Bernhardt's main lobbying and legal clients between 22016 and 22017.
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Ms. Heitkamp could still face a difficult contest against a candidate like Tom Campbell, a state senator and agribusiness executive.
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He also controls a conglomerate with interests in agribusiness, forestry, food processing and chemicals that stretches across several European countries.
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Decker Walker is a managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group, where he leads the firm's global agribusiness sector.
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Agribusiness ETF tries to dig in, while Gold/Silver Index bears kick up some dust ** Consumer Discretionary off 0.5 pct.
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Electricity retailer Mercury NZ Ltd ended the day with a 3% gain, while agribusiness company Scales Corp concluded up 1.4%.
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Cuba's private farmers, over half a million in number, should necessarily play a role in expanding U.S.-Cuba agribusiness trade.
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So far it has invested about 850 million euros in 17 projects in the financial, energy, infrastructure and agribusiness sectors.
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Agribusiness banker Rabobank has said it will not apply penalty rates on loans that have defaulted due to the drought.
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Refiners argue the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has always been unwieldy and the latest rules are a pro-agribusiness boondoggle.
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They include Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM), one of the world's largest grain companies, and chemicals and agribusiness giant DowDuPont.
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Consequently, EBIT results for the first six months in Agribusiness were down from 2015 at $450 million compared to $494 million.
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"We were invited by the Mexican government," Bortolozzo told Reuters on the sidelines of the Global Agribusiness Forum in São Paulo.
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"Seems it was a weekend of pretty favourable weather in the U.S. Midwest," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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"The weather is not good news for summer grain crops such as sorghum," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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Christos Dimopoulos, formerly president of agribusiness, was appointed president of global supply chains, charged with managing Bunge's trading and transportation activities.
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Corteva and Bayer, the largest player in the agribusiness arena, combined make up about 8003% of U.S. seed sales, Cramer noted.
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"The science projections do not point to Australia's climate getting any more favorable," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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Thomsen has led the company's agribusiness unit, which includes its main operations of buying, trading and transporting grain, since May 2014.
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Grassley's request for a federal review increases attention on risks of consolidation as more large agribusiness deals are in the offing.
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Public banks usually have larger exposures in certain sectors such as agribusiness, in part due to their social and development roles.
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"The overall negotiations picture is a little more positive," Phin Ziebell, agribusiness analyst, National Australia Bank, said of the trade talks.
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Despite the technical innovations and fast pace of agribusiness, Bundotich rejects the title of "horticultural value chain player" that Lagat prefers.
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International agribusiness giants such as Syngenta, a member of the open data coalition, also are making public some of their research.
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The stocks are also benefiting from deal activity in the broader agribusiness area, Underhill said, including Bayer's offer to buy Monsanto.
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Last year, agribusiness groups spent $803,280,290 on lobbying, while oil and gas spent $210,516,956, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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ChemChina is also in a bidding war with Monsanto, an American agribusiness firm, for control of Syngenta, a big Swiss rival.
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The decline for the loonie came as China canceled major Canadian agribusiness Richardson International Ltd's registration to ship canola to China.
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It is unlikely that the new right-wing cabinet, tightly tied to agribusiness interests, will do much to prevent these murders.
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Singapore-based agribusiness Wilmar International Ltd scooped up the sugar trading book of rival Bunge for an undisclosed amount in August.
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Agribusiness giant Monsanto gained $2.50, or 2.8 percent, to $92.49, and chemical maker DuPont rose $2.07, or 3.4 percent, to $62.94.
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"The science projections do not point to Australia's climate getting any more favourable," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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In Brazil, the powerful agribusiness lobby, buoyed by global demand for soybeans, has pushed to convert more forest land into farmland.
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Dennigan's career in agribusiness stretches back 15 years, but his family has long been in the food production and distribution business.
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Ethnic groups say the military has seized land for agribusiness and for hydroelectric dams, which produce electricity sold to neighboring China.
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Rural voters should hear more about Sanders's plan to break up the major agribusiness firms and protect farmers from predatory lawsuits.
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Mr. Bolsonaro has promised to champion the agribusiness sector, which seeks to open up more forests to produce beef and soybeans.
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He is the author of Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food (The New Press).
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The final polls before Election Day showed Mr. Bolsonaro's lead widening as the evangelical and agribusiness lobbies rallied to his side.
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The USDA and other government officials need to protect the public, instead of serving the short-sighted financial interests of agribusiness.
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Still, it will likely only continue to boost demand from Scotland, said Francois Sonneville, director of beverages at RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness.
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The agribusiness giant Cargill recently invested in Puris, which supplies Beyond Meat with pea protein, and in two cell-based startups.
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Agribusiness firm Scales Corp ended the session almost 4% higher, while freight services provider Mainfreight Ltd gained about 3% at close.
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The move comes after a bid to takeover Bunge by rival Archer Daniels Midland Co that would consolidate the agribusiness sector.
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"Bayer Crop Science is primarily a chemical company with some significant interest in GMOs," said Chassy, referring to Bayer's agribusiness division.
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It's interesting, then, that one of the segments of the business community with the biggest concern about Trump's policies is agribusiness.
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In a New York Times Magazine cover story, author Michael Pollan accused the administration of bowing to the demands of corporate agribusiness.
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HC2 has repeatedly expressed interest in a "negotiated transaction" to Andersons' board since January, HC2 said in a letter to the agribusiness.
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It has slashed capital expenditure on areas such as its non-ferrous metals business and sold its stake in its agribusiness unit.
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"The overall negotiations picture is a little more positive," Phin Ziebell, agribusiness analyst at National Australia Bank, said of the trade talks.
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The country's agribusiness industry suffered billions of dollars in losses and its output shrank 2.6 percent this year, according to the CNA.
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They're used by big industries (oil, gas, nuclear, agribusiness) that see themselves "under pressure" thanks to declining markets or proposed environmental regulations.
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"The wheat market is under pressure as supplies look pretty good overall," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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"They have announced this cost cutting in response to weak industry conditions," said Chris Johnson, lead agribusiness credit analyst at Standard & Poor's.
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Today, 85 independent, self-funding FSCs together comprise the second-largest private agribusiness in the country and serve 1.3 million Moldovan farmers.
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The GND is a first step to tilt farm policy toward supporting those efforts, rather than lining the pockets of corporate agribusiness.
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Swine fever has hit the world's top pork-producing nation hard, roiling its vast agribusiness sector and reshaping the global meat trade.
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Agribusiness' latest tactic is trying to undermine the increasing sales of plant-based products by regulating and preventing commonly used food labels.
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Yet today there's growing recognition, from the Obama administration to rural America to urban foodies, that this agribusiness model is profoundly flawed.
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They have also reduced spending on seeds, pesticides and fertilizer, which has eaten into sales at agribusiness giants, including Monsanto and DuPont.
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This next farm bill should remedy clear instances of government waste and distortion and move beyond funneling taxpayer handouts into conventional agribusiness.
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Quarterly operating profit for Bunge's agribusiness unit, its largest, rose about 2.5 percent from a year earlier on gains in South America.
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In November, Brazilians elected Jair Bolsonaro, who had pledged to promote agribusiness interests in the Amazon forest, the world's largest carbon sink.
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Mr. Pagh oversees the livestock feed business at the DLG Group, an agribusiness conglomerate that supplies customers in Sweden, Germany and Denmark.
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An agribusiness giant, he said, had recently heralded the impenetrability of the security systems built into one of its new computing components.
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Mr. Bolsonaro has promised to undo many of the protections for the tropical forests to open more lands for Brazil's powerful agribusiness.
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This is in contrast with the remainder of Brazil's farm and agribusiness industry, which will likely seek more loans, the banker said.
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As president, Obama offered some drought relief for agribusiness in the Central Valley, but some farmers insisted it didn't go far enough.
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The New Jersey Democrat's plan to place a moratorium on future food and agribusiness mergers does set him apart from those candidates.
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President Michel Temer's already tenuous political support evaporated within hours after recordings of his conversation with Joesley Batista, an agribusiness mogul, surfaced.
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According to third-quarter economic data released last week, agribusiness grew by 1.3% more than twice the pace of the broader economy.
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As a result, the demand for plant-based foods to replace meat, dairy and eggs is growing, which has agribusiness profiteers worried.
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Maple Leaf, whose agribusiness unit supplies livestock to the meat products group, said total sales rose 4.1 percent to C$854.6 million.
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According to third-quarter economic data released last week, agribusiness grew by 1.3% — more than twice the pace of the broader economy.
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Two of the largest publicly traded agribusiness firms operating in the Brazilian Amazon — Archer Daniels Midland and Bunge — are American-based companies.
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According to a report published in 2014, an estimated 90 percent of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is due to agribusiness activities.
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Bolsonaro also needs to tread carefully with the huge agribusiness caucus that controls more than 40 percent of seats in Brazil's Congress.
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For example, Kentucky's Business Incentive Program grants corporate income-tax credits for up to 13 years to manufacturers, agribusiness firms and headquarters facilities.
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The deadly floods in West Virginia dealt a blow to the state's agribusiness industry, with losses likely to exceed $10 million, officials said.
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The clan's wealth comes from the Charoen Pokphand Group (CP), a conglomerate it largely owns, which in turn presides over an agribusiness giant.
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The country has also been seeking resources deals, and consistently tops the rankings when it comes to buying companies in commodities and agribusiness.
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It's even proposed that some regulation of food safety be returned from the FDA to the more Agribusiness-friendly U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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IBAMA officials are also using a "carrot and stick" strategy to reduce illegal land clearing by both large agribusiness operators and small farmers.
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"Over the last 20 years, Brazil's agribusiness grew over 200 percent but the number of federal inspectors fell by 35 percent," Anffa said.
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Clarke previously worked with KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc, the investment banking arm of KeyCorp, where he headed the firm's food and agribusiness group.
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"The corn market is being supported by adverse weather in the United States," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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"The corn market is finding a floor with concerns over dry weather following planting delays," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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There were signs this week that antitrust regulators were raising doubts about the wave of merger proposals in agribusiness, possibly delaying their completion.
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The company said gross profit its agribusiness segment, which consists of grains, fell to $203 million from $238 million in the fourth quarter.
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Originally introduced last year in the previous Congress, the bill targets large agribusiness, food and beverage manufacturing, and grocery retail mergers and acquisitions.
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"The lack of required phytosanitary agreements are a huge constraint for higher growth," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist with the National Australia Bank.
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BCA is owned by the Beijing Capital Agribusiness and Food Group, GLP-Youshan Fund and CITIC Agriculture, part of state-owned conglomerate CITIC.
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Agribusiness giant Cargill had two recent plant shutdowns it pinned on CSX, during a hearing before the Surface Transportation Board on Oct. 11.
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So says the man who recently received $22 million after bringing to light multiyear accounting violations at Monsanto, the agribusiness and chemicals giant.
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This will be the third bad year crop-wise for their agribusiness, and the couple isn't optimistic next year is looking any better.
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"Queensland desperately needed rain and now it's had way too much in some areas," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness analyst at National Australia Bank.
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Speaking at Brazil's 2019 Agribusiness Congress, Chi said COFCO is looking at investments such as new warehouses and improving transportation systems in Brazil.
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The lifting of most Western embargoes has allowed foreign access to sectors from banking, property and tourism to factories, infrastructure, airports and agribusiness.
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A parade of "agribusiness" professionals—in sectors ranging from beef to soybeans to wheat and more—testified to the importance of trade agreements.
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Still, the overall agribusiness sector's output shrank 2 percent in 20163,largely due to setbacks in the meatpacking and milk industries, CNA said.
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Not surprisingly, members of the business community, including some in fossil fuels and agribusiness, are also determined to defeat the measure on Nov.
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New Deal-era policies, which guaranteed fair prices to farmers and supported rural infrastructure, were replaced with those driven by large-scale agribusiness.
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"We carried 200 coffins symbolizing the genocide and deaths of indigenous peoples at the hands of the authorities allied to agribusiness," Guajajara said.
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They'd borrowed money to move to New Zealand from India last year, so she could do a master's degree there in agribusiness management.
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Trade sources said U.S. agribusiness group Bunge and China's COFCO International were among the companies affected, together with smaller Turkish and Iranian suppliers.
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For example, he says that stocks with ingenious ticker symbols, such as MOO for VanEck Vectors Agribusiness ETF, tend to outperform the market.
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Agribusiness firm Scales Corp and freight services provider Mainfreight Ltd were among top performers on the New Zealand benchmark, rising over 2% each.
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Brazilian agribusiness has grown by leaps and bounds in recent decades as the country has adapted industrial farming techniques to its tropical climate.
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Singapore-based agribusiness group Olam International was the last borrower from the sector to tap Japanese liquidity with a ¥30bn loan in September.
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Soybean exporter Archer Daniels Midland Co and another agribusiness Bunge Ltd reversed their premarket losses and were last up more than 1 percent.
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But the potential sale, which would create the world's largest supplier of seeds and agricultural chemicals, is part of a trend in agribusiness.
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Bunge maintained its full-year earnings forecast of $1.3 billion, with profit from its agribusiness unit, its largest, contributing $800 million to $1 billion.
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She refracts both strands through the eerie prism of her narrative, almost as if Henry James had scripted a disaster movie about toxic agribusiness.
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U.S. chemicals giants Dow Chemical Co and DuPont plan to merge and spin off their seeds and crop chemicals operations into a major agribusiness.
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Increased collaboration between the public and private sectors is also needed, such as agribusiness initiatives, to help small farmers towards entrepreneurship, the note said.
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Parente is a former CEO of agribusiness company Bunge Brasil and has proven to be a solid chief executive in the recovery of Petrobras.
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Back at the agency, Pruitt's steadily rolled back or stalled environmental regulations to benefit the fossil fuels industry, the chemicals industry, and big agribusiness.
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"Grain traders are focusing on core businesses, rather than ancillary businesses," said Kenneth Zuckerberg, an executive director for Rabobank International's Food & Agribusiness Research & Advisory.
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Economic growth should rebound in 2017 at 4.3%, as oil prices recover, effects of large agribusiness projects unfold and public and private investments resume.
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Cervest was inspired by Bassi's experience building a farm-to-market agribusiness whilst confronting first-hand the impacts of climate and natural resource volatilities.
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"A dry summer will push domestic prices down as it will remove quite quickly restocking demand," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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Noisy criticism of the litigation risks facing Syngenta, for example, helped lead the Swiss agribusiness giant to postpone a US$7bn bond in September.
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In March, a Senate inquiry found the collapses "caused significant damage to investors, farmers, neighbouring communities and the reputation of agribusiness managed investment schemes".
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"A stronger dollar and poor demand for U.S. supplies are weighing on corn and beans," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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But Halpern Paul notes her team also does work beyond healthcare, with clients in the property and casualty insurance, agribusiness, and government contracting industries.
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Resnick is the chairman and president of The Wonderful Company, a multibillion-dollar agribusiness whose brands include Fiji Water, Pom Wonderful, and Wonderful Pistachios.
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Much of Brazil is untitled, with indigenous people staking a claim to land based on ancestral rights, amid competition from agribusiness and wealthy elites.
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Illustrating the problems, the sources said that at times different arms of the agribusiness had tried to compete against each other in commodity deals.
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Farmers and some agribusiness customers have been reluctant to pay for data services, particularly with farm income down by half since its 2013 high.
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The agreed purchase of U.S. seeds company Monsanto by Germany's Bayer is the signature deal in a wave of agribusiness takeovers in recent years.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist for the oil and agribusiness industries, as secretary of the interior.
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But as the world's largest rainforest is eaten away by logging, mining, and agribusiness, it may not be able to provide the same buffer.
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"There are some weather concerns in the Black Sea, which has the market a bit worried," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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China has canceled Canadian agribusiness Richardson International Ltd's registration to ship canola to China, in the latest sign of tensions between Ottawa and Beijing.
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While agribusiness talking points, starting with NAFTA, have promised farmers they could export their way to success, the result has been just the opposite.
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All the while the largest agribusiness firms have been getting bigger, more profitable, and better at squeezing every last drop out of their producers.
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Agribusiness is among the most entrenched interests in Washington, and it has mastered the revolving-door culture of influence between government and private entities.
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"I think the judge is wrong and that the decision will be revoked somehow," said director Luiz Lourenço of Brazilian agribusiness industry association Abag.
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In a country where animal-rights activists have grown more vocal in recent years, not everyone appreciates Mr. Lima's exaltation of Brazil's agribusiness prowess.
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"Look at all the reaction to trade drama, the soybean market is sensitive to it," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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Nearly every hog farmer in North Carolina is a contract farmer, meaning the agribusiness corporations own the pigs and the farmers own the waste.
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U.S. chemicals giants Dow Chemical and DuPont plan to merge and later spin off their respective seeds and crop chemicals operations into a major agribusiness.
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"The market's (view on) corn is that last week's news on flooding plains was overblown," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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Employers in the countryside fear a "rural exodus" that could hurt agribusiness in the long run, says Rafael Menute, who runs BRF's operation in Concórdia.
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"The global trend is towards tightening of wheat supplies, although the market remains reasonably well supplied," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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Some lawmakers and critics of the consolidation believe the concentration of agribusiness ownership into fewer hands is bad news for farmers' wallets and ultimately, consumers.
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Milan, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Agriculture Minister Gian Marco Centinaio are among expected attendees at a forum on 'Made in Italy' agribusiness (1230 GMT).
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With global awareness growing, Bolsonaro's comments risk creating a spiraling crisis for his government, imperiling an EU-Mercosur trade pact and upsetting key agribusiness clients.
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Instead of cleaning up its act, state by state, agribusiness lobbyists are feverishly pushing ag-gag laws that blow the whistle on the whistle-blower.
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According to Global Witness, at least 20173 people taking a stand against dams, mines, logging, and agribusiness were killed between 2010 and 2016 in Honduras.
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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland Co has shut its small physical sugar trading operation in London due to tight margins, trade sources said.
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"It is a big deal that China has said it will not buy any U.S. agricultural production," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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One of the biggest deals announced since January is an over $43 billion takeover of Swiss agribusiness company Syngenta by the China National Chemical Corporation.
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The new protected areas were designated last year to create "shields" on the frontline of expansion of timber cutting and agribusiness industries in the Amazon.
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During his short time in Congress, he has championed expanded oil and gas development on public lands, and moved to exempt agribusiness from ESA regulations.
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Maize imports to Mozambique could double this year from the usual 0003,2000 tonnes, said Wandile Sihlobo, an economist with the South African agribusiness association, Agbiz.
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Acquiring a lender in Brazil with knowledge of agricultural markets and clients could facilitate Pengxin's goals for other agribusiness deals, two of the sources said.
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Food businesses accounted for most of the losses with a2 Milk Company Ltd dipping 1.5 percent and agribusiness operator Scales Corporation Ltd dropped 1.1 percent.
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Schroder has forecast a brighter agribusiness outlook for more than a year, yet the segment, its largest in terms of revenues and volumes, has struggled.
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U.S. chemicals giants Dow Chemical and DuPont have agreed to merge and spin off their respective seeds and crop chemicals operations into a major agribusiness.
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According to regulatory filings, just over 23.64% of Newfoundland's portfolio is split in New York- and Buenos Aires-traded shares of agribusiness Cresud (CRESY.O)(CRES.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Agribusiness Segment Concentration Bunge has a leading position in oilseed processing and logistics that supports the approximately $41 billion in consolidated revenues.
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"Despite the fact that we have a very strong agribusiness sector in Brazil ... civil society and social movements managed to influence some laws," Cordeiro said.
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The federal prosecutors office in Brasília confirmed the previously unreported talks with agribusiness representatives about the proposed ban, but declined a request for an interview.
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Another Santa Paula-based agribusiness, avocado marketer Calavo Growers, was down about 2 percent in trading Wednesday after losing more than 1.5 percent on Tuesday.
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While the agribusiness industry can't be expected to develop holistic agricultural systems without a clear product to sell, the government owes taxpayers solutions that deliver.
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"Over the last eight weeks, sales of beer and soft drinks have performed really well," Francois Sonneville, analyst at food and agribusiness bank Rabobank said.
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Parente is best known for his role as chairman of the Brazil unit of agribusiness and commodities-trading giant Bunge Ltd from 2010 to 2014.
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While an earlier generation of agribusiness software focused on increasing productivity on farms, a new crop of companies is targeting the business of farming itself.
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Agribusiness giant Monsanto skidded after cutting its annual profit forecast because of the strong dollar, competition from lower-cost generic products and lower commodity prices.
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As a result, profit for Bunge's agribusiness segment, its largest unit in terms of volume and sales, fell more than 61 percent to $109 million.
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That's in contrast to Dow Chemical and DuPont, whose shareholders will share future spoils and risks of a combined agribusiness in a merger of equals.
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LONDON, Sept 14 (IFR) - Societe Generale has appointed Emmanuel Chesneau as global head of traders, commodity finance and agribusiness in its corporate and investment bank.
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"I spent innumerable hours up there to make it efficient enough to get the cost down," said Wayne Hudson, vice president at Perdue's agribusiness arm.
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The surrounding area, which makes up Clarendon County, was traditionally known for agribusiness and forestry, but it shifted to manufacturing over the past 20 years.
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The disease has slashed China's pig herd by as much as half since August 2018, U.S. agribusiness firm Archer Daniels Midland Co said in November.
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While the loan portfolio for the overall agribusiness sector is bound to grow, the book for sugar and ethanol companies will remain stable, Fernandes said.
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"There is lots of uncertainty around coronavirus at present which makes it hard to predict market direction," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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"There is uncertainty about the virus, it is tough to react given the information we have," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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WINNING STREAK Brazilian agribusiness has grown by leaps and bounds in recent decades as the country has adapted industrial farming techniques to its tropical climate.
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Agribusiness grew by 1.3% in the July-September period and industrial production grew by 0.8%, the best performance in almost two years, IBGE figures showed.
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"I think South American yields will cap prices no matter what happens on the trade issue," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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The disease has slashed China's pig herd by as much as half since August 2018, U.S. agribusiness firm Archer Daniels Midland Co said in November.
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"I think South American yields will cap prices no matter what happens on the trade issue," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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They're hoping to bring Sanders's support for agribusiness to a more public consciousness, which Matt says is a black mark on an otherwise positive record.
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Higher prices for products such as seed, fertilizer and herbicide should help offset some of the lower volumes sold by agribusiness companies, according to the USDA.
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The deal comes amid a blurry rush of agribusiness consolidation in recent months, with ChemChina-Syngenta and DuPont-Dow Chemical forming their own multibillion-dollar Voltrons.
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Some investors, including Elliott, a feisty American hedge fund, have called for the company to excise the toxic agribusiness from a healthy drugmaker (Bayer's original operation).
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The company has more money invested in the fossil fuel and agribusiness industries – the biggest drivers of climate change – than any other company in the world.
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"We are seeing pretty strong gains in corn and beans as planting delays are getting serious," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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"Corn is moving a bit lower today as the market is just pausing a little bit," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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In Ivory Coast, Olam, a Singaporean agribusiness firm, has opened a $75m factory, which will turn the world's biggest cocoa producer into its biggest processor, too.
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New Hope sold 2.55 million pigs and 17.04 million tonnes of feed in 2018, according to the annual report of its agribusiness subsidiary New Hope Liuhe.
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Among the high profile members of the "AccessChina" delegation are Qantas Airways Ltd and both National Australia Bank and Australia and New Zealand Bank's agribusiness units.
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Earnings were propelled by higher sugar and ethanol prices and improved edible oil margins in Brazil, and rose despite weaker results from its core agribusiness segment.
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Canola imports are likely to drop after the General Administration of Customs suspended the clearance of canola imports from Canadian agribusiness Richardson International on March 1.
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Average prices for chicken meat product reached 11.15 yuan per kg in early September, up 13.2 percent on the year, according to Boyar, an agribusiness consultancy.
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Rival agribusiness Cargill Inc closed its Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Albion, Nebraska, grain elevators at least through the weekend due to flooding, according to its website.
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"Current fundamentals in the ag cycle are challenging, so companies are increasingly focusing on reducing costs," said Farha Aslam, food and agribusiness analyst with Stephens Inc.
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CHICAGO, Feb 2 (Reuters) - U.S. agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland Co on Tuesday reported a lower adjusted quarterly profit on lower U.S. exports and weak ethanol margins.
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The acquisition, completed on March 22, will help improve business and operational synergies in the agribusiness segment, the cigarettes-to-cookies maker said in the statement.
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The former governor of Georgia has historically pushed for looser regulations in agribusiness, fought against the enforcement of environmental initiatives, and expressed skepticism toward climate change.
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Like many farmers, the agribusiness giants that develop seed technology, such as Monsanto Co and DowDuPont Inc, have little incentive to focus on raising protein levels.
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Another possible remedy, from agribusiness giant Syngenta, would see maize seeds coated with chemicals before planting, which could protect the plants for up to 30 days.
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Bunge does not disclose specific figures for its trading operation, which is a part of the larger agribusiness unit that also includes oilseeds and grain processing.
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This bill is no compromise—it's a gift to agribusiness and biotechnology companies that have fought popular, state-based labeling initiatives for the past five years.
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JAKARTA, July 30 (Reuters) - Indonesian conglomerate PT Astra International reported a 6% drop in first-half profit, hit by declines at its automotive and agribusiness units.
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In 19 countries surveyed, mining was linked to 43 deaths, with fatal attacks also recorded at hydropower projects and in disputes involving agribusiness and logging companies.
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Dutch agribusiness lender Rabobank said in a June report that losses in pig herd are "difficult to estimate" and could be anywhere from 20% to 70%.
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She defended upstate New York from corporate agribusiness and factory farms, and supported reducing commodity payments to the largest producers and fostering competition in agricultural markets.
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According to his biography on I-DEV's website, he led the growth of a $7 million locally owned agribusiness during his time in the Peace Corps.
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The six-year business deal covers loans, support with feasibility studies, grants for bridge construction, a proposed Philippines-China industrial park, dams, railways and agribusiness training.
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Just last week, a lawyer announced that his client received $22 million for bringing information to the S.E.C. about accounting improprieties at Monsanto, the agribusiness company.
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The move underscores the importance of the agribusiness sector, which grew 13 percent last year, compared with Brazil's overall gross domestic product growth of 1 percent.
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Income from its automotive, finance and agribusiness units fell, while growing income from its mining-related business helped soften the blow, Astra said in a statement.
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Baars has over 15 years of experience in commodity finance roles, most recently at Standard Chartered as head of its Europe commodity traders and agribusiness unit.
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"Despite a turbulent year for the economy and politics in Brazil, agribusiness has contributed to help the country overcome the crisis," CNA said in a statement.
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A growing number of African land lease deals for mining and agribusiness have provoked tension and violence, with local communities claiming forcible eviction by foreign companies.
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Agribusiness - encompassing agriculture, cattle ranching and food processing - accounts for about 24 percent of Brazil's gross domestic product and employs almost 16 percent of its workforce.
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Instead, they are very likely to talk to academic and bureaucratic experts, who are tightly bound within the industrial structure of agriculture, agri-science and agribusiness.
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If small farmers are given a level playing field, they argue, more will succeed — and industrial agribusiness will no longer have a government-provided financial cushion.
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But agribusiness, under the banner of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, lobbies governments to subsidize expanding fossil-fuel-based fertilizers and commercial seeds.
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A good first step in the United States would be to break up agribusiness giants that have virtual monopolies in regional seed, chemical, and meat markets.
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He also said he appreciated the environmental work of the G7, but said any efforts to harm Brazil's agribusiness sector would hurt Latin America's largest economy.
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Matt Osterman's allegorical thriller, written by its star, Cleopatra Coleman, flirts with topicality on several fronts, commenting not only on drone strikes but also on agribusiness.
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In 2016, a Chinese man, Mo Hailong, pleaded guilty to trying to steal corn seeds from American agribusiness firms and give them to a Chinese company.
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At the president's instruction, his aides and friends solicited secret $100,000 donations from such leaders of industry as billionaire Howard Hughes and agribusiness titan Dwayne Andreas.
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Soy, the top crop of Brazilian agribusiness, accounted for 28% of its exports valued at $23.2 billion this year and will continue to grow in 2020.
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Will leading global agribusiness companies be complicit in Mr. Bolsonaro's assault on the Amazon and its people, thus sacrificing their commitments, their reputation and our climate?
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Virgin plots near Pansera in the state of Tocantins can be had for $248 an acre on average, according to agribusiness consultancy Informa Economics IEG FNP.
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So far, Menker said, the site has signed up executives from the top 10 global agribusiness companies and financial institutions with credit exposure to U.S. agriculture.
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While there is some diversification of the business portfolio provided by the food and ingredients businesses, the agribusiness segment currently represents more than 80% of operating income.
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"The current uncertainty diminishes the appetite foreign businesses have to investment in U.S. businesses," said Rabobank Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory in a report released this week.
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It keeps the spotlight on the nation's top steward of public lands, whose past lobbying for energy and agribusiness clients drew scrutiny from Democrats during confirmation hearings.
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There is reason to be bullish about Corteva, but CNBC's Jim Cramer on Tuesday suggested that investors should wait for brighter days before investing in the agribusiness.
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COFCO International (CIL), the overseas trading arm of China's state-owned food and oil giant, wants to "become a true global agribusiness", says Chi Jingtao, its chairman.
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German sugar refiner Nordzucker and Singapore-based agribusiness firm Wilmar International were among parties that had been initially interested, but nothing has materialised, according to the sources.
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"My big concern with GMOs has been their increased use to push toxic pesticides and increase profits of agribusiness and chemical companies," Stein tweeted in late July.
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Plans to open up land to foreign purchases again, however, are bound to draw plenty of investors in Brazil's expanding agribusiness industry that is seeking new partners.
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"Corn planting is 92% complete and the market couldn't be held at those levels given planting data," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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From sugar to coffee and palm oil, agribusiness firms could find that the land they are using is already claimed or occupied by local people, researchers said.
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"Soybeans are edging higher .... but it's hard to get any big rally in prices because of plentiful supplies," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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Already, farmers are feeling the hurt this year as crop prices are down, making it difficult to purchase sufficient seeds and pesticides and in turn hurting agribusiness.
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Hoffman referred to the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center's study of more than 20,000 people, which concluded that viewers who watched the 2008 agribusiness documentary Food, Inc.
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With the sale to Yara, Bunge aimed "to create a more streamlined complement to our agribusiness operations with lower price risk and operating costs," a spokeswoman said.
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Part of a wide-reaching overhaul of the Saudi economy, the sale of the flour mills has drawn interest from some of the world's largest agribusiness companies.
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In 2011, former TV presenter Mavis Mduchwa won funding from a $100 million initiative known as the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme to set up an agribusiness company.
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New agribusiness bankruptcy filings in the state of Mato Grosso rose to nine last year - the highest annual tally since 2015, according to credit services firm Serasa.
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The Australian government had blocked a A$2.8 billion takeover of GrainCorp by U.S. agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland Co in 2013 following pressure from grain growers.
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"The market is essentially trading on the outcome of this talks and its based on nothing more than rumor," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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German sugar refiner Nordzucker and Singapore-based agribusiness firm Wilmar International were among parties that had been initially interested, but nothing has materialized, according to the sources.
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Of all the recent government-backed resource giveaways, few match the audacity of the ongoing Central Sands water grab orchestrated by the state's most powerful agribusiness interests.
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Ms. McCrea, I learned, had worked for decades at the Park Avenue headquarters of Continental Grain, a global agribusiness corporation, rising to lead its central files department.
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While there is some diversification of the business portfolio provided by the food and ingredients businesses, the agribusiness segment currently represents more than 9083% of operating income.
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The company is currently in the process of a demerger, separating grain processing from malting, as it seeks to create two agribusiness companies with more attractive prospects.
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The companies allege CSX scheduling failures have cost millions of dollars in added shipping expenses, according to statements at the hearing and from the Georgia Agribusiness Council.
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It's done all that, El-Erian said during a speech at the Rabobank Food and Agribusiness Summit in New York, with remarkably little upset to financial markets.
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Fair Game Plenty of people have reason to celebrate the $23000 billion bid by Bayer AG, the German pharmaceuticals giant, for Monsanto, the United States agribusiness company.
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Animal agriculture has preferential access to water and other scarce resources, while taxpayers underwrite government programs that enhance agribusiness profits and promote foods that make us sick.
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It is also a leading light of the traditionally successful agribusiness industry in Ukraine - dubbed the "the breadbasket of Europe" and home to highly fertile black soil.
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The day after Toledo residents passed the bill in a special election in February, a corporate firm representing agribusiness interests filed a federal lawsuit against the city.
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Elizabeth Warren's plan to protect family farms and check the market power of agribusiness giants takes rural woes seriously, but it's a band-aid on a hemorrhage.
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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has pledged to open up the Amazon to agribusiness and mining interests, making it vulnerable to people slashing and burning to clear land.
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Mr. Bolsonaro's embrace by investors came late in the game, with influential groups like the agribusiness lobby endorsing him just days before the first round of elections.
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China is also the largest buyer of Brazilian beef, fueling Brazil's transformation into an agribusiness colossus that controls an astonishing 6 percent of the global food trade.
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Their position spurred a bitter, years-long dispute with agribusiness companies and Monsanto in 2016 decided not to launch its new varieties of soybean seeds in Argentina.
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Campaign statements from Bolsonaro, who takes power in January, suggested indigenous lands could be opened up to economic exploitation, including agribusiness and mining, and environmental fines eased.
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Kory Melby, an agribusiness consultant based in the city of Goiania, said the bridge was on the main route connecting Brazil's farm country to its northern ports.
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GrainCorp is in the process separating its malting division from its core grain processing division, as it seeks to create two agribusiness companies with more attractive prospects.
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Agribusiness monopolies eat away at farmers' profit, from the seeds they grow to the chemicals they buy to the supply chain that gets their product to market.
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In December, Noble Group Ltd said it would sell its remaining 49 percent stake in its agribusiness to COFCO International Ltd in a $750 million cash deal.
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The sale of glyphosate products would be halted and farmers who use products with suspended registrations could face legal risks, said Brazil-based agribusiness lawyer Frederico Favacho.
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In the American mind, a "GMO" is a symbol for profit-driven corporations, for big agribusiness, for endless uniform fields of corn and restrictive thickets of patents.
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The foundation's major programs and initiatives have included the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Clinton Climate Initiative and the Clinton Development Initiative, which promotes agribusiness in the developing world.
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Bernie Sanders announced his plan to support rural America on Sunday, promising to hold factory farms and corporate agribusiness accountable by strengthening regulations to protect smaller family farms.
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The revised rules, pushed by agribusiness interests, mean that 112,000 square miles — roughly equivalent to the area of Arizona or Italy — will no longer have to be restored.
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"Wheat crop yields are looking good in top exporting countries, but bargain-buying could be part of today's action," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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Other bidders who were preparing to place first-round bids ahead of Monday's deadline include, Beijing Capital Agribusiness Group, McDonald's China partner, and GreenTree Hospitality, the people added.
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They include a crony-capitalist faction of the Colorado Party, which is angry that the president has invited foreigners to invest in agribusiness and bid for public works.
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The company expects the sale of private pension investment products to lead revenue growth over the next quarters, in addition to some growth in agribusiness-related insurance sales.
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - U.S. agribusiness group Archer Daniels Midland Co. said on Thursday mechanical problems have disrupted output at its Mainz plant, one of Germany's leading soybean crushing mills.
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Despite gains from the new NAFTA deal with Mexico and Canada, it falls short in reaching "more ambitious goals" of certain agribusiness sectors, a CoBank report said Friday.
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It is such families' wealth—made, out of sight, from deals in banking, agribusiness, logging, resource extraction and the like—that clogs Phnom Penh's streets with supersized SUVs.
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Glencore, a commodities and mining giant, made an unsolicited offer for Bunge, which traces its history back to 1818 and is one of the world's biggest agribusiness concerns.
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The $66bn offer, which Bayer first submitted in May last year, is one of the biggest deals in a wave of consolidation that has swept the agribusiness industry.
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Bunge Ltd slipped 3.7 percent after the global grains merchant reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit, as its agribusiness was hit by declining soybean prices in Brazil.
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Bunge Ltd slipped 5.3 percent after the global grains merchant reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit, as its agribusiness was hit by declining soybean prices in Brazil.
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The consortium's drive for shareholder support comes as The Australian newspaper on Friday reported Chinese agribusiness COFCO Corp was considering a rival bid for CBH, citing no sources.
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Its agribusiness reported a 224 percent surge in profit due to a recovery in palm oil prices and the strengthening of the local currency against the U.S. dollar.
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Last year Egypt overtook Turkey as the EBRD's largest country of investment, with about 1.2 billion euros invested in renewable energy, power, property and tourism, agribusiness and transport.
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"A key question is what will happen to almond blooms in February," said Vernon Crowder, a senior analyst with a focus on food and agribusiness research for Rabobank.
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With food exports driving the recovery of the agribusiness powerhouse, Temer called for improved market access for farm goods and the elimination of agricultural subsidies that distort trade.
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The comment came after Reuters reported that China had canceled Canadian agribusiness Richardson International Ltd's registration to ship canola to China, the world's top importer of the oilseed.
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"Land reform is important, as financing for agriculture is severely constrained by the fact agribusiness cannot use land as collateral," Malige told a Ukraine investment conference in London.
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Antibiotics should be used to treat illness, not to compensate for unsanitary conditions; legislators should work for the health of their constituents, not for the interests of agribusiness.
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A sharp shift in sentiment over the Swiss agribusiness group's $603 billion sale to ChemChina, the state-backed giant, shows how Beijing's influence complicates life for merger arbitrageurs.
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Land rights campaigners say powerful agribusiness interests are known to bribe local land registry officials to secure farm ownership, displacing local residents in a process known as "grilagem".
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CPF, the flagship business of Thailand's largest agribusiness conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group, has been looking to buy assets overseas to boost growth and offset a slowdown at home.
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Schools canceled classes, businesses told employees to work from home and virtually every part of the powerhouse agribusiness sector said the damage was massive, if not yet quantifiable.
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A common concern with urban farms is their reliance on grants that eventually dry out, said Stan Ernst, a professor of agribusiness development also at Pennsylvania State University.
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Bayer and Monsanto agreed last month to a $66 billion combination that would create a vastly powerful agribusiness company — and that has farmers worrying about higher seed prices.
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Rial told analysts at an event at the bank's headquarters in Sao Paulo that consumer lending and companies in the agribusiness sector will drive Santander's loan book growth.
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Rial told analysts at an event at the bank's headquarters in Sao Paulo that consumer lending and companies in the agribusiness sector will drive Santander's loan book growth.
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They defended their votes by citing concerns that ranged from Perdue's approach to food stamps to trade with Cuba to GMO labeling and a perceived coziness with agribusiness.
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E.T.F.s for production-company stocks generally focus on narrower segments, like SPDR S&P Metals & Mining, FlexShares Morningstar Global Upstream Natural Resources Index Fund and VanEck Vectors Agribusiness.
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"The wheat market is well supplied but there is some short-covering and threat to supplies from U.S. weather," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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Today's CTE is diverse, with career pathways spanning the vast world of work, leading to careers from engineering and information technology to advanced manufacturing, agribusiness and health science.
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But when it comes to agribusiness, the president has been very vocal about Canada's "unfair" dairy industry hurting U.S. producers, particularly dairies in border states such as Wisconsin.
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And it won't matter if the GMOs in question are ones that primarily lined the pockets of big agribusiness or primarily helped small farmers grow food more sustainably.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in March rolled out a broad set of proposals aimed at boosting America's small farmers and helping protect them from corporations and big agribusiness.
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"With lower farm-gate prices, I would expect to see a further increase in cull rate of less productive dairy cattle," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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"We will cap those subsidies coming from Washington and make sure they are targeted to the farmers who need that help, not to these profitable agribusiness corporations," he said.
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U.S. agribusiness group Archer Daniels Midland Co said on March 23 that was suspending production at a major biodiesel plant in Germany because of an increase in cheap imports.
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The higher margins prompted Bunge to raise its agribusiness unit's full-year earnings outlook to a range of $800 million to $1 billion from $550 million to $700 million.
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State-owned agriculture trader COFCO has pioneered the push overseas, investing over $3 billion to buy Noble Group's agribusiness and recently taking full ownership of Dutch grain trader Nidera.
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"The company has more money invested in the fossil fuel and agribusiness industries – the biggest drivers of climate change – than any other company in the world," the letter adds.
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Cuba and Canada trade over $1 billion worth of goods per year and Canadian companies have significant investments in mining, power, oil and gas, agribusiness and tourism in Cuba.
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The sale of Saudi's flour milling sector is part of a wide-reaching overhaul of its economy and has drawn interest from some of the world's largest agribusiness firms.
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Starboard´s founder and managing partner Fabio Vassel expects the fund to acquire up to six distressed medium-sized companies in sectors such as chemical, beverages, agribusiness and construction.
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Elsewhere in the industry, U.S. chemicals giants Dow Chemical and DuPont plan to merge and later spin off their respective seeds and crop chemicals operations into a major agribusiness.
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Bunge's agribusiness unit was also boosted by soybean crush hedging gains of about $70 million that it said will reverse in the third quarter when soy products are sold.
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That has made it easier for tribes looking to cash in on an agribusiness boom, turning their coveted savannah into fertile farmland with the know-how of white farmers.
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The average Brazilian eats about 42 kg (93 lbs) of meat per year, second only to the 53 kg devoured by their Argentine neighbors, according to agribusiness consultancy Athenagro.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Global grain trader Bunge Ltd said on Monday that the head of its largest unit, agribusiness, is retiring, days after the company reported a surprise quarterly loss.
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Aside from being Georgia's secretary of state, Kemp is "a small business owner with companies in agribusiness, financial services, real estate management and investment," according to his campaign website .
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The company said gross profit at its agribusiness segment, historically responsible for about 0.53 percent of company revenue, fell to $203 million from $238 million in the fourth quarter.
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In the absence of such enforcement, I'm renewing my call for a moratorium on big ag mergers by reintroducing the Food and Agribusiness Merger Moratorium and Antitrust Review Act.
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"Chinese importers have been very savvy, the way they have been buying, getting the best quality at the right price," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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The scenario for the 'Food Chain Reaction' simulation was created by experts brought in from the State Department, the World Bank, and agribusiness giant Cargill, along with independent specialists.
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After grappling with the integration of Rotterdam-based grain trader Nidera and the agribusiness of Singapore-listed Noble Group, CIL is aiming to vie with established multinational trading groups.
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While global supplies are ample as of now, the only thing that could change that "would be a possible La Nina", said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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BASF emphasises that it is serious about its crop-protection business, that it has €6 billion in sales and that it devotes 26% of its R&D to agribusiness.
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Right now agribusiness interests in some states are working overtime to effectively inoculate themselves from any kind of legislative or regulatory oversight, including efforts to address the antibiotics issue.
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China confirmed that it has suspended the clearance of canola imports from Canadian agribusiness Richardson International and said customs will step up inspections of Canadian canola until further notice.
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On average, the government picks up the tab for 62 percent of farmers' premiums to purchase crop insurance, whether it's a small struggling farm or a multimillion dollar agribusiness.
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State-owned agribusiness, the Cameroon Development Corporation, which employs 22,000 workers in the two affected regions where it has plantations, has seen its operations practically brought to a halt.
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Alongside other conservative politicians, he belongs to the powerful "BBB caucus" — short for "bullet, beef and Bible," since they represent the interests of security forces, agribusiness and evangelical churches.
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CHICAGO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - China's African swine fever outbreak is far more severe than thought earlier in the year, U.S. agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland Co said on Wednesday.
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Bunge held its 2018 agribusiness segment earnings outlook unchanged in the upper half of an $800 million to $1 billion range, supported by oilseeds operations in the Northern Hemisphere.
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The lion's share of the U.S. agribusiness trade to China involves soybeans, which are grown in many farm states where Trump received strong support during the 603 presidential election.
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To ensure a steady stream of foreign labor, agribusiness adapted by having an army of labor contractors on hand who could secure illegal alien labor at a moment's notice.
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"Getting good, reliable labor is a problem, and the further you get away from a capital city, the harder it gets," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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Most agribusiness land is in the west of the country, so has been less affected by the conflict in eastern regions than other sectors, particularly mining and heavy industry.
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Lower first-quarter earnings also prompted Bunge to cut capex for 2017 by $50 million, likely delaying investments in "some smaller projects across both agribusiness and food," Schroder said.
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While no genetically engineered food crops have been planted commercially in India, the country does have one GMO: Bt Cotton, a strain developed and produced by the agribusiness Monsanto.
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He expects financial services, agribusiness and education, which have proved resilient to the economic and political turmoil, to produce a stable stream of M&A activity in coming months.
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The term is a reference to the "slow food" movement, itself a reaction against large agribusiness and in support of small family farms that grow organic, in-season produce.
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The strong results came despite warnings earlier this year from Cargill and some agribusiness rivals that weak commodities prices and oversupplied grain markets would create headwinds for agricultural traders.
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News that Glencore Agriculture Ltd, jointly owned by Glencore and two Canadian pension funds, approached Bunge sparked the U.S. agribusiness' sharpest rally in more than eight years on Tuesday.
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But now it's used by a multitude of local planners, fishermen, agribusiness companies and shippers who want longer-term insights — even if they avoid calling it climate-change forecasting.
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Alberto Setzer, a senior scientist at INPE, told CNN that the burning can range from a small-scale agricultural practice, to new deforestation for mechanized and modern agribusiness projects.
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Amazon Basin As glacial melting reduces freshwater reserves for the Andean plain, tensions are growing between locals and the mining and agribusiness operations that consume much of what remains.
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"The prospects for any supply issues are now gone, which was illustrated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture report last night," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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The report said that foreign direct investment in Europe was up 76 percent to $81 billion due to the delayed finalizing of ChemChina's takeover of Swiss agribusiness firm Syngenta.
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São Paulo-based Votorantim, which has interests in sectors from cement and aluminum to agribusiness and energy, tried to prioritize cash generation amid economic and political turmoil in Brazil.
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Singer, now a Princeton University professor, is a wisp of a man who defeated an agribusiness army with the power of his ideas and the muscle of the humanities.
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Thys Grobbelaar, a grain analyst with leading South African agribusiness Senwes, said it is incredibly rare for South Africa to have corn area losses of this magnitude (tmsnrt.rs/2000VchTty).
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The S.E.C. said Monsanto, an agribusiness giant based in St. Louis, had insufficient internal controls to properly track millions of dollars in rebates it offered to Roundup retailers and distributors.
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Analysts estimate that U.S. agricultural exports to Cuba could reach $1.2 billion if remaining regulations are relaxed and trade barriers are lifted, a market that U.S. agribusiness wants to capture.
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Furthermore, Fitch notes that some of the risks associated with the California drought have now moderated due to increased reservoir levels and water allocations to CVB's dairy and agribusiness customers.
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Giving workers complete autonomy WATT Global Media, a content and marketing services company in the agribusiness industry, implemented ROWE in 2012, following a big transformation period with several new hires.
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The tractor project is called Sustainable Energy Supply for Agricultural Machinery, or SESAM, and John Deere plans to officially unveil it at the Paris International Agribusiness Show in early 2017.
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Trying to explain are representatives of Pula, the "insurtech" firm that designed the coverage, and the Zambian subsidiary of Bayer, an agribusiness giant, that sells it with its maize seeds.
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He said if a strategic buyer were to pass on Bayer assets that might be shed, there's a chance private equity (including agribusiness-focused funds) might pursue such a transaction.
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"We cannot say that, because we have a fire in the Amazon rainforest, Brazilian agribusiness is the great destroyer and should therefore face trade barriers," Dias told journalists in Brasilia.
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The Sydney-based lender said it had expended its agribusiness team by 15 percent to offer options to customers such as financial relief from deferred debt repayments and fee wavers.
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"Corn and beans are facing pressure as there have been some beneficial rains but there could be trouble if it gets hot," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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Bunge's agribusiness unit posted a higher profit for the quarter on timing effects from soybean crushing of about $70 million, which the company said would reverse in the third quarter.
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Perdue, 313, whose cousin is a US senator, was known to advocate a "pro-business" agenda as a legislator and is the founding partner of a global agribusiness trading company.
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The meeting was the start of a push by the sector for more details from Clinton and Republican rival Donald Trump about their stances on issues affecting farmers and agribusiness.
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But after joining the local women's organization in 2017, Katindi learned that, as an active member of the agribusiness group, she could use her share to apply for a loan.
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Markarian said Pruitt as Oklahoma's top law enforcement official "abused the power of his office to attack charities on behalf of agribusiness interests" and worked to block animal welfare initiatives.
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U.S. regulators have given tentative approval to a Chinese conglomerate's proposed $43 billion acquisition of Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta on condition it sells some businesses to satisfy anti-monopoly objections.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren took aim on Wednesday at agricultural conglomerates, promising her administration would break up big agribusiness mergers that she said have hurt family farmers.
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Bolsonaro, who enjoys strong support from Brazil's powerful agribusiness sector, said during his campaign he was considering such a move, arguing that protected lands should be opened to commercial activities.
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In 2016, UK-based agribusiness Sundrop Farms Holding Ltd opened a vast greenhouse for tomato farming in the Australian outback near Port Augusta, 163 km (190 miles) north of Adelaide.
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Colleges near Wayne: Wayne State CollegeSome of Wayne's biggest economic industries (besides Wayne State College) are government, agribusiness, the wholesale/retail industry, and the service industry, according to its site.
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Carlos Aguiar, head of agribusiness lending, said the growth catapulted the bank to the fifth position among the largest providers of this type of loan in Latin America's biggest economy.
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COFCO International is controlled by Chinese food group COFCO Corp and became a global commodities trading house following its acquisition of grain trader Nidera and the agribusiness of Noble Group.
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Regardless, some in agribusiness still worry about another year of low crop prices and the added uncertainty surrounding the North American Free Trade Agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
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Much of Bolsonaro's political support comes from agribusiness, the arms industry, and the religious right, a nexus of power referred to as the Three "B"s—beef, bullets, and Bibles.
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The Wonderful Company is a privately held multibillion-dollar agribusiness that describes itself as the world's largest grower of tree nuts and the largest U.S. citrus grower, among other enterprises.
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Founded 86 years ago, Algar is a family-controlled corporate group based in Brazil with more than 23,000 employees that specializes in tourism, B2B technology, agribusiness, telecom and security systems.
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"There is a push to get more into the supply chain without going all the way to being branded food products," Chris Johnson, lead agribusiness credit analyst at Standard & Poor's.
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But Mr. Bolsonaro came out of the first round of voting with a strong lead, thanks in part to last-minute backing from the evangelical lobby and powerful agribusiness groups.
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Major pig producers in the region including the Guangdong branch of agribusiness giant New Hope Liuhe, said they will further expand hog production in the area to help with supplies.
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"That would directly affect one of Bolsonaro's main - if not the main - electoral base, the agribusiness industry, which has backed him from the word go," political risk analyst Barreto said.
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"The main issue is how to get to a rational discussion about what's happening," says Marcos Jank of the Centre for Global Agribusiness at Insper, a university in São Paulo.
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Major pig producers in the region including the Guangdong branch of agribusiness giant New Hope Liuhe, said they will further expand hog production in the area to help with supplies.
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The VanEck Vectors Agribusiness Exchange-Traded Fund is the largest agricultural index fund, and it returned an annual average of 143 percent for the 214 years that ended in September.
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"Chinese buying is supporting the market although it is just a short-term support as concerns remain about the trade war," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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The Brazilian Climate Observatory said his speech would not stem a rising outcry for a boycott of Brazilian products that could hurt agribusiness, one of his main bases of support.
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The agreement should not solely be assessed by how it affects agricultural exports by multinational agribusiness firms, but instead for its overall impacts on farmers, rural communities and our economies.
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Fitch recognizes the risk for an agribusiness company vulnerable to volatile working capital swings directing significantly more cash flow to shareholders but views it as manageable given anticipated cash flow generation.
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Perdue, the former governor of Georgia, also said he would resign his positions from the National Grain and Feed Association, the Bipartisan Policy Center Governor's Council and the Georgia Agribusiness Council.
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The jury awarded punitive damages after it found that the St. Louis-based agribusiness had purposely ignored warnings and evidence that its popular Roundup product causes cancer, including DeWayne Johnson's lymphoma.
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If successful, the Chinese company's near-$44 billion purchase of Syngenta, the world's top agribusiness company, would be a real milestone, even by the increasingly acquisitive standards of the People's Republic.
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His remarks underscore a push under Rial, a former executive of Cargill Inc and Marfrig Global Foods SA, to reposition Santander as a competitive agribusiness lender in Latin America's largest economy.
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Brazil's FPA congressional agriculture caucus, which groups more than 200 lawmakers aligned with agribusiness, expressed concern over the lower ethanol and beef quotas and higher tariffs than had been hoped for.
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HAMBURG, Jan 19 (Reuters) - U.S. agribusiness Cargill plans to expand its starches and sweeteners factory in Krefeld, Germany, and switch to using wheat as a raw material, it said on Friday.
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The company expects its agribusiness unit, the largest in terms of revenue and volumes, to start the year slow and progressively improve as volumes and margins pick up in South America.
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Bowing to pressure from growers, the Australian government in 2013 rejected a A$2.8 billion bid for GrainCorp by U.S. agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland Co Ltd on national interest grounds.
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The economy has zipped along at an average growth rate of 6% a year, while foreign investment has more than tripled, with manufacturing, agribusiness and call centres all showing particular strength.
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"There is some support for the wheat market as we are witnessing adverse weather in parts of the U.S. grain belt," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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"On the scale of these floods, it certainly looks like the worst-case, or near the worst-case scenario is playing out," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness analyst at National Australia Bank.
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Virtually all of the countries listed above saw a spike in development and its dark sides: deforestation, communities chased off their land to make way for mining developments or agribusiness plantations.
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"We have had near record dry weather across some parts of the country and as a result many will dry plant," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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Perdue reportedly told the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) that he will vacate roles at the National Grain and Feed Association and the Georgia Agribusiness Council as part of the agreement.
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Based on past experience with Chinese acquisitions of agribusiness assets, the particulars of ChemChina's Syngenta purchase seem to predispose it not just to CFIUS review but also to serious Congressional scrutiny.
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"They can take away our lawyers but they can't take away our people," said Walter Calcemo, one of the campesinos trying to reclaim land given to agribusiness in the Bajo Aguán.
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill said on Monday it had reached an agreement to sell its industrial chocolate production unit in Mannheim, Germany, to Dutch investment companies Nimbus and Varova.
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Sources had told Reuters in March that a partnership of U.S. agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland Co and Saudi foods group Almarai were also interested in bidding for SAGO's milling operations.
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Since the first accusations, Noble has booked impairments of over $1 billion, sold its agribusiness and lost its investment- grade credit rating in one of the worst commodity downturns in decades.
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SG said on Thursday Chesneau will be based in Paris and be responsible for the coverage of trading companies and corporate commodity finance across all sectors covering energy, metals and agribusiness.
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That kind of opposition is why agribusiness giant Cargill Inc is pursuing gene-edited technology with caution, said Randal Giroux, the firm's vice-president of food safety, quality and regulatory affairs.
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Harold Edwards, chief executive of agribusiness Limoneira, said he has ample supplies of lemons, oranges and avocados for retailers, particularly as demand from restaurants, cafeterias and other food service clients dwindles.
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Others argue that the problem is bigger than meat: They say the fires are the cumulative fault of big agribusiness and compliant international governments, whose policies encourage displacement of indigenous people.
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He added Brazil can expand commercial ties with China, noting such bonds have been steadily growing in recent years as China has invested heavily in Brazil's agribusiness sector and infrastructure projects.
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"Without a doubt, COVID-19 will disrupt business-as-usual practices for forestry and industrial agribusiness companies," said Gemma Tillack, forest policy director at U.S.-based environmental group Rainforest Action Network.
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"We need to differentiate illegal use of fire to open space for agribusiness and other large-scale agricultural activities from traditionally prescribed and controlled fire for diverse local activities," she explained.
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But if we want to have a meaningful impact on climate change we will have to confront agribusiness, which spends more on lobbying in the United States than even defense lobbyists.
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And you'd need the support of the government, which is problematic considering the Bolsonaro administration has more or less granted agribusiness the Brazilian version of Manifest Destiny to steamroll the Amazon.
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Brazil is expected to harvest a record 124.2 million tonnes of soybeans in the 2019/20 season, agribusiness consultancy INTL FCStone estimated on Tuesday, raising a prior forecast by 200,000 tonnes.
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The government of President Michel Temer is so entangled with the rural lobby that he has just named Osmar Serraglio, a prominent member of the agribusiness caucus, as minister of justice.
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The lion's share of the U.S. agribusiness trade to China involves soybeans, which are grown primarily in heartland states such as Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and the Dakotas.
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Andrej Babis, 62, Czech Republic Undoubtedly the best-known businessman-turned-politician in Central Europe, Mr. Babis transformed an agribusiness conglomerate into a diversified corporate behemoth that includes major media properties.
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After selling its animal nutrition unit Neovia to U.S. agribusiness group Archer Daniels Midland in 2018, InVivo had said it would invest in farming solutions and acquisitions in the wine sector.
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The outlook makes the world's biggest seed company the latest agribusiness to detail ongoing pressures from large crop inventories that are weighing on commodity prices following four years of bumper harvests.
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Last fall, her fifth and final year as a double major in food science and biological engineering, she received a job offer from the agribusiness Cargill at a salary of $56,000.
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In its forestry and agribusiness policy, adopted in 2008, Credit Suisse says it will not finance or advise companies with operations in "primary tropical moist forests" like those of West Kalimantan.
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According to the report, Walmart and Costco are two of the top customers of JBS and Cargill, the US-based agribusiness giant that ranks among the top exporters of Brazilian soy.
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If private Cuban farmers could export more of their products to the United States, they would have more hard currency to buy U.S. agribusiness equipment and inputs, from seeds to fertilizer.
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The best way to support Cuba's private farmers and America's ailing farmers at the same time is to allow each country to sell the agribusiness they do best to the other.
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Bristling with this kind of detail — and a relentless focus on the agribusiness billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick, whose profits seem immune to drought — "Water & Power" unleashes a geyser of facts.
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Where would these powerful agribusiness companies get the capital they need to bulldoze deeper into the Amazon, if they should take Mr. Bolsonaro up on his offer to eliminate environmental protections?
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"Wheat prices rallied in January but the world still has ample supplies and it hard for the market to sustain those gains," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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And the UK government wants to crack down on a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids that might be good for agribusiness, but also a major culprit in decimated bee populations.
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Agribusiness has destroyed much of the forest that once provided the Guaraní with their food, and between 2005 and 2015, at least 86 Guaraní children died as a result of malnutrition.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) rolled out a package of proposals on Wednesday designed to boost the fortunes of America's small farmers, instead of the agribusiness giants who increasingly control the sector.
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The case was brought by the communication ministry against Ness-Prod, a subsidiary of the agribusiness group Cevital after it acquired a 80 percent stake in the private media group El Khabar.
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"We wanted the space to feel like Google," says Eleni Gabre-Madhin, the founder of blueMoon, a new agribusiness incubator that opened in Addis Ababa in February, without a trace of irony.
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With about $20 billion in revenue, that new agribusiness spinoff would leapfrog Monsanto, the St. Louis-based seed and tech powerhouse with $15 billion in revenue in its latest fiscal year. Sen.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina Dias, said on Friday that agribusiness should not be blamed for the fires sweeping through the Amazon rainforest and that potential trade barriers are unjustified.
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" — Ag-giant Cargill is a major Klobuchar supporter: "The agribusiness titan, 90 percent of which is still owned by the descendants of founder William W. Cargill, is based in the Minneapolis-St.
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"Soybeans are ticking higher but market is unlikely to get very excited unless there are substantial purchases of U.S. beans by China," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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This cycle of cash between public institutions, EU programmes, a private agribusiness and a political party means "the eventual impact of European funds is to promote a single party," Mr Wagenknecht concludes.
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Profits in Bunge's agribusiness unit were boosted by timing effects in soybean crushing operations of about $70 million that it said will reverse in the third quarter when soy products are sold.
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Bottom line: Top-down laboratory-developed technological 'solutions' under control of agribusiness, such as genetically engineered seeds, more agrochemicals and extreme mechanization, only lead us deeper into the food and climate crises.
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"A true gluten-free barley variety is a true game changer, there is going to be a massive market for the product," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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The gift to the powerful agribusiness sector enraged environmentalists already worried by Bolsonaro's plans to loosen protections of the Amazon rainforest and remove Brazil's support for the Paris Agreement on climate change.
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Limited farmer sales of crops in South America, home to a large share of Bunge's elevators and processing plants, squeezed margins for the company's agribusiness division, its largest in terms of revenue.
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This is according to the head of conglomerate Adani Enterprises Ltd's agribusiness division, who also said imports should stay elevated next year so India can build stocks back up to comfortable levels.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Record-high stocks should keep world food prices low during 2186 even as inflation starts to rise in many developed economies, agribusiness bank Rabobank said in a report on Wednesday.
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Brazil's powerful agribusiness sector, which managed to convince Bolsonaro not to withdraw Brazil from the Paris accord, is worried his stance on the Amazon could lead to a boycott against their exports.
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Fitch recognizes the risk for an agribusiness company vulnerable to volatile working capital swings directing significantly more cash flow to shareholders but views it as currently manageable given anticipated cash flow generation.
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Alireza, a former Goldman Sachs banker, was speaking soon after Noble's shareholders approved the sale of its remaining 49 percent stake in its loss-making agribusiness to China's COFCO for $750 million.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's congressional farm lobby, which represents the country's powerful agribusiness sector in both houses, on Tuesday endorsed far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, the front-runner ahead of Sunday's election.
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The new model aims to boost investment in "high value-added sectors" such as agribusiness, renewable energy, services, digital economy, industry, mining and downstream activities in the hydrocarbons sector, the statement said.
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According to regulatory filings, just over 50% of Newfoundland's portfolio is split in New York- and Buenos Aires-traded shares of agribusiness Cresud, stocks that fell on Monday 38% and 25%, respectively.
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Although never directly linked, Bolsonaro's environmental policies would likely be welcomed by the so-called "ruralistas"—a powerful alliance of agribusiness and big landowners within the country's Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
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In the biggest potential Chinese deal for a foreign company, the Swiss agribusiness Syngenta has agreed to be acquired by a state-owned Chinese chemical company, known as ChemChina, for $43 billion.
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Brazilian agriculture and agribusiness contributed 23.5 percent to the country's gross domestic product in 2017, the highest in 13 years, according to an estimate released on Tuesday by the farm lobby CNA.
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The push for GM crops also comes just as state-owned ChemChina completed its acquisition of Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta, with the world's second-largest economy appearing to build a GM empire.
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Farmers around the world have faced a similar problem, as a sudden influx of cheap foreign-grown products from huge agribusiness firms have undercut local producers and forced them into desperate circumstances.
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"We know that the coronavirus has slowed down global trade in agriculture products and caused wild swings in broader equity and commodity markets," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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Ildefonso Guajardo, the country's economy minister, said at a luncheon on Thursday with Mexican agribusiness owners that the sugar dispute was virtually the only issue he had been discussing with Mr. Ross.
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The lion's share of the U.S. agribusiness trade to China involves soybeans, which are grown in many Midwestern farm states where President Donald Trump received strong support during the 2016 presidential election.
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In August, energy and commodities trader Vitol completed a ¥60.8bn (US$542m) three-year loan, while agribusiness group Olam International raised a ¥30bn loan in September with three and five-year tranches.
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The American multinational reportedly laid off executives including vice presidents across sectors including agribusiness, FMCG, and real estate at its Gurgaon headquarters — and more exits are expected in three months&apos time.
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Chinese pork production will fall by up to 25.5 percent in 225, Oscar Tjakra, a director of food and agribusiness research at Rabobank, told a conference in the east of the country.
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Because agribusiness trade benefiting both countries will be more durable and synergistic than one-way trade, all other possible legislative and regulatory measures should also be pursued to encourage reciprocal bilateral sales.
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Critics argue that banks should go much further by explicitly committing to phasing out financing for fossil fuel projects and agribusiness that drive deforestation in the Amazon, Southeast Asia, and other regions.
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In no small part from American-based asset managers BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard, which are shareholders in all five of the largest publicly traded agribusiness companies operating in the Brazilian Amazon.
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"Wheat prices rallied in January but the world still has ample supplies and it (is) hard for the market to sustain those gains," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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Igor Figueiredo, general manager of VLI's agribusiness unit, told Reuters during a visit to the company's installations in the municipality of Porto Nacional, Tocantins state, that the new cars entered operation this month.
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The Chicago-based agribusiness had said on Tuesday that worsening market conditions were making it difficult to turn a profit trading grain internationally, leading to the biggest daily share loss in eight years.
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"Soybeans are ticking higher but the market is unlikely to get very excited unless there are substantial purchases of U.S. beans by China," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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"The United States is struggling to sell beans and farmers could be planting more this year if they miss the window to plant corn," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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Okja sees an heir to an agribusiness empire try hopelessly to cloak the ills of capitalism to tailor its product to younger, more informed generations, while the real heroes are young, eccentric activists.
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Of course, you don't govern a state for eight years without developing ties to its local industries, so no doubt progressive activists will find plenty to complain about in Vilsack's relationship to agribusiness.
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The case was brought by the Algerian communications ministry against Ness-Prod, a subsidiary of the agribusiness group Cevital, after it acquired a 80 percent stake in the private media group El Khabar.
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Somkuan Choowatanapakorn of Charoen Pokphand Foods, a big Thai agribusiness that handles lots of pork, says the company has "taken steps already" to train farmers to recognise and respond to the disease's symptoms.
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Bunge and its agribusiness peers, including Archer Daniels Midland Co, Cargill Inc and Louis Dreyfus Co , have been cutting costs and restructuring operations to navigate through a particularly difficult time for the sector.
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Shares in CPF, the flagship unit of Thailand's largest agribusiness entity Charoen Pokphand Group (CP), rose 21 percent as of 235.2600 GMT, after hitting their highest since December 2014 earlier in the day.
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Foreign agricultural suppliers that have moved ahead of U.S. exporters into the Cuban market are providing more generous market access for Cuba's leading agribusiness exports such as coffee, tropical products, cigars and alcohol.
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Among those who were preparing to place first-round bids ahead of the June 20 deadline were Beijing Capital Agribusiness Group, which is McDonald's current China partner, and GreenTree Hospitality, the people added.
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Careless use of water by agribusiness can trigger negative environmental effects across a river basin - including reduced flow in streams and rivers, and water degradation - and stoke water-related disputes, the agency says.
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Filipino executives are eager to talk with Chinese business leaders and government officials about deals in a range of sectors, from rail, and construction to tourism, agribusiness, power and manufacturing, the sources said.
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Right-wing Congressman Jair Bolsonaro's decision marks a surprising about-face for a candidate who enjoys strong support from Brazil's powerful agribusiness lobby and has called conservation efforts a threat to Brazilian sovereignty.
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Lab-grown "clean meat," made from actual animal muscle tissue, will save the resources needed to raise farm animals - and is starting to get serious attention from agribusiness giants and traditional food processors.
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Newfoundland Capital Management of Sao Paulo was hit with a loss on paper of around $55 million, as its bets on four Argentine companies in agribusiness, natural gas, energy distribution and telecommunications imploded.
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Filipino executives are eager to talk with Chinese business leaders and government officials about deals in a range of sectors, from rail, and construction to tourism, agribusiness, power and manufacturing, sources told Reuters.
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His secretary of agriculture, former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, hails from the country's top chicken-producing state and has "received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from agribusiness," according to Bloomberg.
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But the advocacy groups that have fought so long and hard for clear GMO labeling aren't cheering: They know the bill is a gift to the agribusiness and biotech industries—not a compromise.
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Bernhardt continued work for Westlands Water District, a major agribusiness group in California, as late as April 2017, the month he was nominated to his current role as deputy secretary of the department.
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COFCO has embarked on an aggressive expansion into international grain trading, investing over $3 billion to buy Noble Group's agribusiness in March as well as a large stake in Dutch grain trader Nidera.
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"We simply decided that it was time to really focus on what's core to us, which is agribusiness, foods, grains and oilseeds and get on with it in a good way," he said.
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The planned legislation has been attacked by environmental groups and also by major agribusiness companies worried that altering the forest code will hurt Brazil's image abroad and lose them markets for food exports.
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Last week, Brazil's principle industry group for meat exporters Abiec joined with other agribusiness associations and nongovernmental organizations to call for measures to protect the Amazon and avoid possible damage to Brazilian businesses.
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A former lobbyist for the oil and agribusiness industries, Mr. Bernhardt has been instrumental, first as deputy secretary and now as the agency's leader, in promoting President Trump's policy of fossil fuel development.
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Many of the oil, mining, and agribusiness operations in which BlackRock allegedly invests contribute to the violation of indigenous rights and furthers the expansion of development into the Amazon, according to Amazon Watch.
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Bayer, a German chemicals multinational, announced last year that it planned to buy Monsanto, its American agribusiness rival, but it was only this past June that it sought approval from the European authorities.
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International agribusiness companies looking to expand their food exports to China have heavily invested in some of the least-developed Brazilian regions, resulting in the transformation of former jungle areas into wealthy cities.
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Pressured by a fading popularity and an unnerved agribusiness sector fearing commercial retaliations from European countries, Mr. Bolsonaro deployed the Brazilian Army to the Amazon to implement a 60-day ban on burning.
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When combined with previous import levies, "the other white meat" will be subjected to import taxes that approach a whopping 240 percent cumulatively, according to Rabobank, a financial services firm for the agribusiness.
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In light of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo's commitments, Oxfam commissioned John Wilkinson, an agribusiness specialist at Rio de Janeiro's Federal Rural University, to conduct an independent review of the companies' efforts in Brazil.
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From state to state across the nation, U.S. agribusiness exports to Cuba could grow by impressive, quantifiable multiples, delivering more money into the pockets of U.S. farmers and more jobs throughout rural America.
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The Agribusiness Capital (ABC) Fund will begin operations in early 2019 and provide loans of between $753,000 to $1 million, said Gilbert F. Houngbo, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
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"It's unacceptable that EPA would set biofuel volumes below demand at a time when farmers, biofuels producers and agribusiness owners are forced to shed jobs and close plants," influential Senator Chuck Grassley said.
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The country's largest listed agribusiness did not give further details, but industry sources said there had been a slowdown in Chinese demand for barley as Beijing considers whether to introduce tariffs on Australian supplies.
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"The presence of modern retailers like Carrefour will also help to create jobs and support the growth of modern retail in Georgia," said EBRD Director Gilles Mettetal, Acting Head of Industry, Commerce and Agribusiness.
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"Agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they possibly can while family farmers are going bankrupt and in many ways are being treated like modern day indentured servants," he said.
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"With this decision, the RSPO has again failed to adequately hold accountable one of its member companies found guilty of widespread illegal labor violations," said Robin Averbeck, Agribusiness Campaign Director for Rainforest Action Network.
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A prolonged drought usually causes lower fresh fruit bunch production and may hit oil extraction during harvest in the next 6-12 months, said Pinta S. Chandra, investor relations, Sinar Mas Agribusiness and Food.
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa's agricultural industry body AgriSA will approach banks, agribusiness and government to raise 3 billion rand ($229 million) to help farmers hit by severe drought, its executive director said on Friday.
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BRASILIA, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Brazilian agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina Dias, said on Friday that agribusiness should not be blamed for the fires sweeping through the Amazon rainforest and that potential trade barriers are unjustified.
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And with profitably, the paramount concern for the major agribusiness concerns, setting aside plants for future diversity or crop emergencies seems expensive in the short-term, though it is not in the long run.
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Some agribusiness companies, worried about the bad image the loosening of the law would give Brazilian products in foreign markets, joined environmentalists in criticizing the amnesty in the Brazil Climate, Forests and Agriculture Coalition.
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Bunge left its previous earnings forecast unchanged, with results for its agribusiness segment, Bunge's largest in terms of revenue, seen lower in 2019 amid uncertainty about late-planted U.S. crops and the trade war.
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"The main reason for introducing this technique was to enable communities, particularly in dry-land areas, to build resilience to climate stresses, increase food productivity and engage in agribusiness for income generation," Mulevu said.
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State-controlled producers, like China's State Development & Investment Corporation (SDIC), agribusiness COFCO and Jilin Fuel, rushed to draw up plans to invest billions of yuan to double output in the world's largest car market.
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"Energy is a key focus for us, but also infrastructure - ports, industrial zones - and of course support of agribusiness, transportation and logistics, which are also key for the development of these countries," Rouissi said.
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Agribusiness results in 2019 are expected to be below 2018 due to narrowing soybean crush margins, while its struggling sugar and bioenergy unit's results are likely to be "about break-even," the company said.
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Handy reported that Des Moines — nicknamed the "Hartford (Connecticut) of the West" thanks to its large insurance industry, is "awash with job[s] ... in a wide array of industries, including agribusiness and financial services."
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In January, the Brazilian government delegated the task of demarcating indigenous lands — essentially setting up reservations — to the Ministry of Justice, a move widely seen as friendly to agribusiness and hurtful to indigenous peoples.
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China has cancelled major Canadian agribusiness Richardson International Ltd's registration to ship canola to China, according to a document listing approved exporters posted on the website of the Chinese customs administration on March 1.
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Doug Hawkins of Hardman Agribusiness, an advisory firm, says that most cocoa is produced by smallholders who have not increased supply in recent years as much as other commodity producers, helping push up prices.
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Newfoundland Capital Management, based in Sao Paulo, was hit with a loss on paper of around $132 million, as its bets on four Argentine companies in agribusiness, natural gas, energy distribution and telecommunications imploded.
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Hope has taken a beating here and globalization has taken a toll: Factories have closed, wages have stagnated, and small-scale farmers who cannot compete with large agribusiness operations have been pushed into bankruptcy.
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As part of its diversification strategy, Mubadala invested 70.1 billion dirhams last year across existing investment sectors including technology, aerospace, commodities and financial services as well as new sectors such as medtech and agribusiness.
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Meanwhile, agribusiness company Graincorp finished 11.2% higher and was the biggest percentage gainer on the benchmark after Australia's competition regulator approved the takeover of the company's domestic bulk liquids terminals business by ANZ Terminals.
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SA) rural credit loans rose to about 13 billion reais ($4 billion) last year as the Spanish bank's local unit grew its presence in the country's booming agribusiness sector, an executive said on Thursday.
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Newfoundland Capital Management, based in Sao Paulo, was hit with a loss on paper of around $55 million, as its bets on four Argentine companies in agribusiness, natural gas, energy distribution and telecommunications imploded.
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Evolva will launch Eversweet with its manufacturing partner U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill, it said, though the 2018 plan is subject to the successful conclusion of "ongoing negotiations" between the two companies by this spring.
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In February, I met with peasants, or campesinos, in the Bajo Aguán region, where entire communities are living in squalor after they were violently displaced by World Bank–supported development projects devoted to agribusiness.
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The state plans to sell its 15 percent stake in industrial and agribusiness firm Industrial Promotion Services (West Africa) and the 2.2 percent of shares it owns in Burkina Faso sugar company SN-SOSUCO.
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Brazil is the No. 2 agribusiness market globally behind the U.S., but agtech is a massively underserved sector in LatAm, accounting for less than 1 percent of venture investment in Latin America since 2011.
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NAB's general manager of agribusiness Khan Horne said Fox's business was under "extreme financial pressure" by 2013, with "significant creditors dating back to the prior year's trading, payroll issues and pressure from other suppliers".
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He persuaded the government to lower grain export tariffs, a change that benefited agribusiness investors like Cargill, and to open negotiations with Chevron and Exxon for oil and natural gas exploration in the country.
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"Approving this merger would create the world's biggest agribusiness company, potentially crushing competitors and establishing an unprecedented monopoly on lucrative farming data," said Adrian Bebb at environmental lobbying group Friends of the Earth Europe.
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Yet we blithely accept these standards for human diet: We are stuck with our diets because our ancestors ate this way, because food tastes good or because agribusiness has persuaded us about dietary compositions.
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But influential evangelical and agribusiness lobbies rallied to his side in the final stretch, while investors and wealthy Brazilians backed him, believing that Mr. Bolsonaro would curtail social spending and implement market-friendly reforms.
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Brazil's farm export strength confirms the country's reliance on agriculture and agribusiness as a motor for growth, as this sector contributes to roughly a fourth of the nation's gross domestic product in a year.
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Naessl also said the EBRD would continue to help improve the business climate and support small and medium-sized enterprises, adding that tourism, automotive and agribusiness could turn into a backbone of the economy.
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Morales, who has attacked American fast food for doing "a great deal of harm to humankind," emphasizes the importance of "food sovereignty"—the right of producers to be protected against competition from multinational agribusiness.
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With Cuban President Raul Castro set to retire in February 2018, the time is right for Congress and the administration to make small changes to our current trade relationship by encouraging bilateral agribusiness trade.
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Agribusiness conglomerate COFCO Group said in a statement to the China Beijing Equity Exchange on Thursday that it would sell its 14 percent stake in UBS Securities for at least 461.72 million yuan ($66.77 million).
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Bernie Sanders has proposed a series of reforms that aim to level the playing field for farmers and farmworkers that include a similar moratorium on agricultural mergers, as well as the breaking up of agribusiness.
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"There is no good news for U.S. producers from an escalation in the U.S.-China trade war and in that environment, there is little upside for prices," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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G275 Global Holdings, the joint venture of U.S. agribusiness Bunge and Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Co (SALIC), bought 23 percent of the former Canadian Wheat Board in 23 for C$250 million ($194.22 million).
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"Higher-than-average rains will boost the national (wheat) production prospects, which are heavily reliant on Western Australia as the largest producer and largest exporter," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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The plan foresees some Odebrecht units, including its construction and agribusiness arms, seeking partners and going public after the introduction of tougher corporate governance rules, CEO Luciano Guidolin told newspaper O Estado de São Paulo.
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The right-wing government of President Juan Orlando Hernandez has strongly favored big business and has made investments – many of them from large, international companies – in mining, forestry, agribusiness and hydroelectric dams a top priority.
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"There was a brief rally early in the year, but it is very hard to sustain a rally when there is an ample supply of wheat," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank.
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She can then apply to a farmer-lending institution for a loan as an individual - in which case her share in the agribusiness network is her collateral - or with her group, as Wario's collective did.
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"It's welcome, but the deficiencies have been so big for so long now that a single event is not going to fix it," said Phin Ziebell, an agribusiness economist at National Australia Bank in Melbourne.
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As a part of an ongoing portfolio review, agribusiness company Graincorp said in March it planned to sell GrainCorp Liquid Terminals Australia to ANZ Terminals for an enterprise value of A$350 million ($244 million).
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The toll also mounted in industries from automaking and meat processing to aviation and agribusiness as the protests froze deliveries of fuel, feed and other essential inputs, threatening economic activity and exports of soft commodities.
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The loss, compared with a profit of $262 million a year earlier, is likely to raise shareholder pressure on executives to find a buyer or take more aggressive steps to shore up the agribusiness division.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has suspended clearance of canola imports from Canadian agribusiness Richardson International and will step up inspections on canola imports from Canada until further notice, the General Administration of Customs said on Thursday.
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"A trade tariff on bellies wouldn't be very impactful because of the minimal amount we send to Mexico," said Christine McCracken, the executive director of animal protein at Rabobank, a financial services firm for agribusiness.
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Cindy Foster — a classmate at MidAmerica Nazarene University, where Shults studied biology and agribusiness — tells the Kansas City Star that Shults was the first woman to fly an F/A-18 Hornet for the Navy.
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Effective April 1, China slapped a 25 percent tariff on U.S. pork imports and a new 15 percent duty on other key agribusiness products, including apples, cherries, citrus and nuts such as almonds and pistachios.
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Asked why he had singled out Monsanto, DuPont and John Deere, Mr. Friday said he wanted to illustrate the differences between what a year in agriculture can look like for individual farmers and big agribusiness.
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In corporate activity, agribusiness company Graincorp added 0.5 percent after it said it intended to sell its Australian bulk liquid terminals business to ANZ Terminals for an enterprise value of A$350 million ($248.89 million).
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"Group results for the year are expected to be significantly better than last year's," the company said, citing strength in agribusiness and sugar, as well as a growing contribution from the group's East African operations.
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