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India's report card

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... traditional India, the Ministry of Finance said rural production was up only 2.6 per cent. Highlighting the concerns, Indian wheat production has fallen one-third since 2006. India entering the world wheat market as a buyer rather than as a seller is ...

Agriculture drives biofuel investing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... returns in the near term. Global shifts in cropping trends and the on-flow of rising prices in key commodity markets of wheat and canola are also boosting opportunities for Australian farmers, said Jon Sutton, the bank's executive general manager of ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... upside would be so tempting as we enter a new round wage price negotiations. Meanwhile, adding even more price momentum is wheat prices last week hitting their all time high, signalling a new round of food price inflation as local consumers brace themselves ...

Investing in BRIC, food, feed and fuel

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... markets through the S&P BRIC 40 index. The Food, Feed, Fuel fund provides exposure to agricultural commodities including corn, wheat, sugar and soybean through the S&P GSCI Biofuel E40 Excess Return Strategy. "The rise in economic prosperity and population ...

Macq Pastoral banks on beef demand

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... capacity to carry both sheep and cattle. The property also includes dry land and irrigated crops such as soya beans, lucerne, wheat, barley, canola and red clover. Tim Hornibrook, Macquarie Pastoral Limited director, said, "The purchase of this property ...

Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
... southeastern grain-producing regions. According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) Australia's wheat production is expected to more than double from the previous years drought stricken harvest and farm production ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2007
... trade in goods and services data for April and private new capital expenditure data for the March quarter. On the market, wheat farmer Graincorp releases it first-half results and pay TV provider Austar Ltd holds its annual general meeting. Nervous investors ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
... price index was up 29 points at 6300. Today, building materials company James Hardie Ltd releases its full year results and wheat grower ABB Grain releases its fist-half results. Logistics firm Toll Holdings Ltd will hold a scheme meeting for shareholders ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... cotton by about 58 per cent. Sorghum is expected to fall by about 54 per cent and following the driest winter on record, the wheat crop is now expected to be down about 64 per cent. The negative impact of the drought upon national GDP remains at 0.75 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
... recent rains across the eastern seaboard improving the condition and consequently the selling prices for sheep, cattle and wheat. Sheep prices have about tripled in the last couple of months at a time when Australia's flock has been forecast to fall ...