Ag Trends and Outlook

Millennials above the legal drinking age drank 25.7% of wine by volume in the U.S. in 2012 Ð higher than the global average of 20.6%.

Traditionally low volume buyers, sales of U.S. wheat to Brazil and China in 2013 have accounted for 36% of total sales to date.

Partners Beta Renewables and Novozymes have opened the worldÕs largest advanced biofuels facility outside Crescentino, Italy.

According to the World Bank Namibia ranks as the fifth safest country regarding risk out of 54 countries in Africa.

Economic and cultural factors have decreased the U.S. domestic sheep herd to one tenth the size it was at its peak in the 1940Õs.

According to Hamburg-based Oil World U.S. soybean exports may reach 20 million metric tons for the quarter.

A mix of hard production conditions, rising input costs, and domestic price wars has held Australian dairy back from benefiting in Asia.

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural & Resource Economics & Sciences released a report on the future of Asian markets.

If approved, the U.S. could have its first oceanic aquaculture farm in 30 acres of water under federal jurisdiction.

Macquarie warns of a Ôstructural oversupplyÕ in the Arabica coffee market and warns that the oversupply will only get worse.