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Precious metals rose Friday as a fresh drop in the dollar and speculation that crude oil's plunge may soon end fed safe-haven buying of gold, silver and copper.Other commodities traded mixed. Crude, despite questions from some...
Brazil's favorable weather and the priority ascribed by farmers to planting soybean in the areas most adequate to cultivation led the Brazilian production to reach a new record high in 2007. Soy production reached 58,038...
I attended my first coffee tasting yesterday, at Trabant Coffee & Chai (the U-District shop). Alexa, one of the baristas at Trabant (at the far left in the photo to the left), led six of us through the multi-sensory educational...
The EU Council of Agricultural Ministers once again have failed to achieve a qualified majority either for or against the market placement of two genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The European Commission now assumes...
The construction of a highway corridor connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean is going to simplify the transfer of agricultural production and make possible the growth of exports of Brazilian grain, mainly to Asia. With...
