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Aventine Reports 2nd Quarter Results (GlobeNewswire)

yahoo.com     yesterday          

PEKIN, Ill., July 31, 2008 -- Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc. , a leading producer, marketer and end-to-end provider of clean renewable energy, today released results for its second quarter and six months ended...                    

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Tequila Hangover

portfolio.com     yesterday   11 related          

A lot of dead cacti in Mexico are causing a headache for the maker of Southern Comfort and Jack Daniels. The liquor company Brown-Forman said today that quarterly earnings fell 7.5 percent after the cost of dead or dying...                    

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DJ CBOT Soy Review: Retreats On Rains, Crude Slide Pressures (ENG)

webagro.net     yesterday          

By Andrew Johnson Jr. Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures stumbled Thursday, backpedaling as traders extracted risk premium amid beneficial rains moving through upper Midwest...                    

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Food Futures: Corn contract trades lower on rainfall forecasts, dollar's gains

marketwatch.com     yesterday   7 related          

Corn contract falls on weather forecasts, dollar Selling pressure also undermines wheat and soybeans NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Corn futures fell Thursday, a retreat tied to speculation that rainfall in the Corn Belt will...                    

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PAKISTAN: Flour shortages cause despair ahead of Ramadan

alertnet.org     yesterday   1 related          

Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. Rubina Aslam, 30, cannot read or write. "We owe over Rs 6,000 (about US$78) now and can't afford to pay it back,"...                    

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3. As food prices soar, Brazil and Argentina react in opposite ways

iht.com     yesterday   1 related          

A soybean farm in Argentina, which is limiting exports to fight inflation and to keep domestic food prices from rising. (Diego Guidice for The New York Times) As food prices soar, Brazil and Argentina react in opposite...                    

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Earth Policy Institute: Raising Water Productivity

sustainablog.blogspot.com     yesterday   1 related          

By Lester R. Brown With water shortages emerging as a constraint on food production growth, the world needs an effort to raise water productivity similar to the one that nearly tripled land productivity during the last...                    

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ZIMBABWE: Listening for the trucks that will bring the food

alertnet.org     yesterday          

Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. Hungry residents of a village in Masvingo Province, in southeastern Zimbabwe, have acquired an unusual skill:...                    

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Floods to cap rice output at 2007 level

expressindia.com     yesterday   6 related          

Reuters Posted online: Thursday , August 28, 2008 at 19:18 hrs Updated On: Thursday , August 28, 2008 at 19:18 hrs Flooding in key regions will cap India's summer-sown rice output at around last year's level despite a...                    

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Both sides are probably wrong

newstatesman.co.uk     yesterday   1 related          

The latest evidence leaves the case for GM foods openI met Likeness last month in Malawi. She is a peasant farmer with three kids and no prospects. The rains came late to her maize field near the Zambian border and then...                    

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