Archive for July 22nd, 2021

NEW DELHI, INDIA — India is expected to produce a record 305.4 million tonnes of grain in 2020-21, an increase of 8 million tonnes from last year’s record harvest, according to a report from the Foreign Agricultural Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Higher production is being driven by record production of rice, wheat, corn and pulses.

For 2021-22, rice production at 121 million tonnes is not expected to change, despite concerns about the prolonged lull in the monsoon’s rains.

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ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, US — US President Joseph Biden recently encouraged increased competition in the US economy with an executive order, which the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) hopes will urge the US Surface Transportation Board (STB) to allow agricultural shippers to request bids from nearby rail carriers.

According to a letter sent by the NGFA and members of the Agricultural Transportation Working Group (ATWG), President Biden’s July 9 executive order encourages the STB to resume its consideration of a proposed ...

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — As the winter wheat harvest advanced rapidly northward through the central Plains and Central states toward a timely conclusion, producers in the drought-plagued northern Plains and grain markets braced for what increasingly was expected to be a small, quality-challenged 2021 US spring wheat crop.

The US winter wheat harvest was 73% completed by July 18 in the 18 principal production states, the US Department of Agriculture said. That mirrored exactly the progress a year earlier and ...