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  • UK wheat crop area up 14pc "> 7 Aug 2008 22:12 GMT
    ... Wheat plantings in Britain are up 14 per cent this year at 2.07 million hectares while the barley ...

  • Commodities Super Cycle Heading for Demand Destruction? 7 Aug 2008 21:37 GMT
    ... jumped to 10.4%, a 10-year high. The UK's PMI tumbled to 44.3, it's lowest since December ... December 1998, from 45.9 in June, and British home prices have tumbled 8% in the ... siege from “demand destruction,” a Bank of England rate cut to 4.75% could be on ...

  • BP, Verenium Target Cellulosic Ethanol 7 Aug 2008 15:59 GMT
    ... Deal is latest in biofuels for British oil giant have formed a partnership to ... that will produce ethanol and butanol from wheat. It also has an agreement with the ...

  • Burning issue - biomass plants need more investment if the EU is to meet its renewables goal 7 Aug 2008 13:19 GMT
    ... 16:57 GMT, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 17:57 UK Biomass energy is being touted as a ... been given a green light to build Britain's first ever straw-powered Combined Heat and Power ... source of energy production? Robin Witt, Frome. England Dale and David seem to have hit ...

  • Wheat Board may have cost growers billions 7 Aug 2008 12:30 GMT
    ... CALGARY -For 73 years, the Canadian Wheat Board ... source for agronomics analysis. Based in Memphis, British owned, it has no dog in this policy fight; ... (its parent firm is traded on the London exchange) is surely worth more than scoring ...

  • Farmers get better beet deal at last 7 Aug 2008 08:26 GMT
    ... Farmers get better beet deal at last A ... extra £15m has been thrashed out by British Sugar and the National Farmers' Union. Growers ... “linked” price, it is possible if the wheat price hit £150 per tonne and the ...

  • Why it's a dangerous move to pour biofuel on our food crisis fire 7 Aug 2008 06:18 GMT
    ... reversing a 30-year trend. The price of wheat rose by 120pc in the past year. ... prices (modern -- and particularly western -- agriculture has long depended on cheap oil to ... Agency, in a report commissioned by the UK government, urged caution and a slowdown in biofuel ...

  • Report bursts Wheat Board's financial bubble 7 Aug 2008 02:56 GMT
    ... Farmers protesting changes to the Canadian Wheat Board ... source for agronomics analysis. Based in Memphis, British owned, it has no dog in this policy fight; ... (its parent firm is traded on the London exchange) is surely worth more than scoring ...

  • Impacts Of Climate Change On Wheat In England And Wales 6 Aug 2008 22:54 GMT
    ... is not clear how this might affect agricultural crops and whether yield losses from drought ... and lower summer precipitation predicted in the UK for the 2050s, the impact of drought stress on wheat yield is likely to decrease, because wheat ...

  • BP, Verenium Work on Cellulosic Ethanol 6 Aug 2008 20:29 GMT
    ... release. BP already joined forces with Associated British Foods and DuPont to build a $400 ... alongside a biobutanol demonstration plant in the UK in 2007. The ethanol plant will produce about 111 ... will produce about 111 million gallons using wheat, while the demonstration plant will turn out ...

  • Saskatchewan to lead growth parade 6 Aug 2008 18:18 GMT
    ... August 6, 2008 at 1:23 PM EDT Saskatchewan's new ... caused a decrease in global supplies of wheat and barley, while the diversion of corn ... the levels observed in 2005 and 2006.” British Columbia's economy is expected to moderate to ...

  • Why peas are top of the crops 6 Aug 2008 18:15 GMT
    ... Pea brains: a huge, time-sensitive operation ensures that ... the first food to be frozen in Britain in the early Fifties, when they were ... torrential rain wiped out nearly half the British crop as the shallow-rooted plants gave up ...

  • Further harvest pressure on cereals prices 6 Aug 2008 16:28 GMT
    ... prices and wet weather means very few farmers are selling at the moment, say traders. ... big backlog of transactions to do.” Large UK and EU wheat and barley crops had also put pressure ...

  • Earsdon goes back to local roots for bloom tour 6 Aug 2008 15:30 GMT
    ... travel to all four corners of the UK, in a two-week whirlwind judging tour to ... judging tour to find the 2008 RHS Britain in Bloom winners. From August 4 to ... RHS Britain in Bloom, supported by Shredded Wheat, is the largest horticultural campaign in Europe. ...

  • Low sales due to falling grain prices and rain, say traders 6 Aug 2008 12:14 GMT
    ... prices and wet weather means very few farmers are selling at the moment, say traders. ... big backlog of transactions to do.” Large UK and EU wheat and barley crops had also put pressure ...


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