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US crop planting is food for thought [1]

Soyabean and wheat prices continued falling yesterday as traders chewed over the implications of the dramatic shifts in agricultural production likely across the US farming industry this year. Both soyabeans and wheat are on course for a large increase in farmland devoted to their production, while last year's rush by US farmers into corn to feed the requirements of the ethanol industry will be partially reversed.

Publication Date: 
02/04/2008
Chris Flood [2]
Financial Times (London) [3]
Tags:
Wheat [4], Soyabean [5], Ethanol [6], Farmers [7]
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