Ag Trends and Outlook

Drier than normal subsoils have more than doubled to 76% in an area from Texas to North Dakota.

California saw historic farmland value increases in 2013 on higher crop prices and increased planting of tree nuts and winegrapes.

Pernod Ricard warns that sales to China have been flat since the Lunar New Year due to austerity drive and crackdown on luxury goods.

As many as two thirds of Chinese agricultural investment project in Brazil face lengthy delay or are never begun.

The value of proposed, pending and completed food and ag deals by Chinese buyers soared in 2013 to $16.9 billion.

Agricultural commodity exports from India rose to 10.66% of overall exports in 2012/13 from 7.06% in 2009/10.

Russia plans to double its aquaculture production by the year 2020 from its current annual production of 130,000 tons.

Over the past six months farmland values in Iowa have fallen 5.4% because of lower grain prices according to a benchmark survey.

BrazilÕs congress struck down a proposal to impose a new tax on the countryÕs internal soy industry.

Farmers in Brazil and Paraguay are planting a second crop of soybean foretelling that supplies will remain high.