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Increased Demand, Trump Administration Risks: Analyst Picks Celanese As Chemical Winner, ADM As Loser For 2025
Tuesday, January 14, 2025 - 12:25pm | 747The chemical industry could be in for a turbulent 2025 spurred by increased demand, cost inflation and President-elect Donald Trump‘s PFAS policies. The Chemicals Analyst: Bank of America analyst Steve Byrne released a note covering the chemicals industry on Tuesday, upgrading and downgrading...
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Cultivator Chronicles: The Cutting-Edge Science Of Cannabis Cultivation
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:31pm | 605Ethos Cannabis, operating in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Maryland, emphasizes foundational practices to improve cannabis yield and quality. Steve Garner, VP of cultivation, highlights the importance of strong basics over quick fixes that he believes all cannabis companies should be...
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Commentary: Steel Rivers Of Grain Continue To Flow
Wednesday, April 8, 2020 - 10:31am | 1656The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates. What is the importance of grain? Any food made from wheat, rice, oats, corn or barley is a grain product. Breads, pasta, breakfast cereals, grits and tortillas are...
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Volumes Of Flood-Delayed Crops Picking Up In Midwest
Friday, July 5, 2019 - 1:56pm | 975Recently, farmers in the Midwest have been catching a well-deserved break from devastating weather. The 12 months from May 1, 2018 through April 30 of this year was the wettest 12-month period in U.S. history. Major flooding began in mid-March, followed by wave after wave of severe thunderstorms...
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A Soy Story: Citi Upgrades Grain Processors Archer Daniels, Bunge
Tuesday, March 6, 2018 - 5:58pm | 545Grain processors are coming off a difficult 2017 due to an excess supply of soymeal from Argentina flooding the global market. Argentina is now in a drought, and soy production in the country is likely to fall by 8.8 million tonnes year-over-year in 2018 to 49 million tonnes, according to Citi....
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Australia Adds to Wheat Woes
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 9:02am | 425Tuesday, September 13th 2011 The fundamental outlook for Wheat seems to favor the bear camp at the moment, as the large Australian crop may increase global ending stocks. Corn's impact on the Wheat market, however, cannot be discounted. Higher moves in Corn could not only shift overall grain...
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Cash, Money, Hose? Lack of Water Killing Texas Farm Industry
Monday, August 22, 2011 - 10:15am | 452With Hurricane Irene approaching the East Coast, and the plains and midwest regions well into their annual thunderstorm season, a lack of rain is hardly on most American's minds. Yet, in Texas, the dearth of rainfall is up there with High School Football as the only topics on anyone's radar. Texas...
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Wheat Futures Climb to 10-Week High on U.S. Crop Fears
Monday, August 22, 2011 - 6:28am | 439Forexpros – Wheat futures were up for a second day on Monday, climbing to a ten-week high as adverse weather in key U.S. wheat growing regions added to worries over deteriorating crop conditions in the U.S.Chicago Mercantile Exchange, wheat futures for September delivery traded at USD7.3925 a...
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USDA Aggressively Lowers Corn and Soybean Yield Estimates
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 11:01am | 600Monday, August 15, 2011 With weather forecasts calling for much needed rain in more moderate temperatures in the northern parts of the Midwest, some traders believe that the USDA may have been too pessimistic on its Soybean yield estimate. Should the weather cooperate, we could see a sell-off in...