For the corn and soybean industry in the Midwest, it is a costly problem.
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Blame the drought conditions that blazed through the corn and soybean crop this year.
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The increase came from strong sales of corn and soybean sales in North America and weedkiller products.
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Twenty-three years later, he drives through his corn and soybean fields in the southwestern corner of Minnesota.
Monsanto's seeds and genomics business increased 13% in the first quarter, led by increases in corn, soybean, cotton and vegetable platforms.
Surrounded by corn, soybean and dairy farms, Athens is about 12 miles from Battle Creek, home to cereal maker Kellogg Co.
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James Brown, a 72-year-old tobacco, corn and soybean farmer in Clover, Va.
Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant is focused on selling sales of corn and soybean in Latin America, crops engineered to withstand herbicides and insects.
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Monsanto said better-than-expected sales for its corn, soybean and vegetable products will result in a 25.0% boost to seed sales in 2008 .
Liquid oils are usually unsaturated fats, including monounsaturated fats in olive and canola oils and polyunsaturated fats in safflower, corn, soybean and fish oils.
If a farmer wants to protect from falling corn and soybean prices, it can lock in the price in the futures market, also a hedging strategy.
The cool, wet spring in the Midwest delayed planting of the corn and soybean crops and that means pollination of these two crops is happening later in the summer.
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Published in the online version of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the report said soil management practices in the region's corn and soybean fields are partly to blame.
Scouts trudged into fields of both corn and soybean along a direct westerly route across the Midwest region that accounts for about 75 percent of U.S. corn and soy production.
Consumer food cost inflation, relative to all other goods, has risen to twice its 2005-2007 rate of increase as well due to sharp increases in corn, soybean and wheat prices.
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According to Benbrook, the negative effects of genetic engineering have resulted from the widespread adoption by farmers of crops such as corn and soybean engineered to be resistant to the herbicide glyphosate.
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According to the report, which was compiled by more than two dozen scientists, the 2011 runaway bloom was fueled by phosphorus-laden fertilizers that were swept from corn and soybean fields during heavy rainstorms.
Economically, artificially-created fuel demand for corn, soybean oil, grease, and other inputs drives up the input prices for food and consumer products such like french fries, soaps, detergents, hair conditioners, eggs, dairy, and sweeteners.
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If all of those acres we dedicate to exports, wheat, corn, soybean--99% of all acres are dedicated to exports in this country--if we convert those to ethanol and biodiesel, we can produce 1 billion barrels of biofuels.
For example, Jim Rodgers, co-founder with George Soros of the Quantum Fund, told the BBC that a lack of farmers played a starring role in a recent spike in food prices - grain, corn and soybean being critical parts of the food supply chain.
Fertilizer, like many commodities, rises and falls dramatically in price, and the volume sold varies wildly from year-to-year, too, as farmers load up on nutrients in anticipation of strong grain prices, and ease up on the stuff when they expect corn and soybean prices to be lower.
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With wheat, corn, and soybean prices going haywire, many fear a new phase of rampant food inflation, but analysts at Barclays suggest it will be more moderate than expected, feeding through to consumers gradually and with a relatively long lag.
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The ship contains food items such as corn, wheat, soybean flour, vegetable oil and lentils.
Soybean and corn inventories are expected to decline in U.S. farms this year by 3% and 13% respectively, according to analysts at RBC Capital Markets.
With droughts in Russia, excessive rains in Canada and Pakistan and adverse weather conditions affecting the harvest in the U.S., the U.S. government has cut its forecast for stocks of key crops such as corn, wheat and soybean.
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High-tech advances in improving the resilience, yield and herbicide resistance of mainstay crops have generated significant results along with a set of widely-licensed gene patents that are used in most soybean and corn crops grown in the U.S. today.
National Corn Growers Association, American Soybean Association and United Soybean Board, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, and private firms.
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In other words, the problem with corn, wheat, and soybean prices is the consequence of a supply shock, not a structural move in demand.
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When you log in to FarmLogs, you will see a dashboard that was designed for row crop farms such as corn, wheat, and soybean fields.
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Corn, he concedes, is an energy-intensive crop, but Tumbleson says he may be better off than wheat or soybean farmers because corn is in just about everything we eat.
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