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Researchers fear new threat to soybeans (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)     (Cached page)
Red-banded stink bug. (Russ Ottens/University of Georgia, Bugwood.org) COLUMBIA, Mo. — The state's soybean farmers could contend with a new threat in the new year — the red-banded stink bug.

Palm up, best annual rise in 12 years (Business Times (Malaysia))     (Cached page)
PALM oil gained to the highest in more than seven months, adding to the best annual performance in 12 years, on anticipation higher crude oil prices would lift demand for biofuels. Palm oil rallied 56 per cent last year on rising demand from India and China, the biggest consumers, and amid tight supplies of soybean oil because of drought in South America. Crude surged 78 per cent in 2009, the ...

New ARS-Developed Soybean Line Resists Key Nematode (PhysOrg)     (Cached page)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new soybean line developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists is good news for growers. The line, JTN-5109, is effective against the most virulent soybean cyst nematode, called LY1.

Emerald Dairy Consummates Private Placement of $1.75 Million of Promissory Notes and 536,809 Warrants (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)     (Cached page)
Emerald Dairy, Inc. , a leading producer and distributor of infant and children's formula, milk powder and soybean products in China, today announced it has closed a private offering in which it sold to "accredited" investors promissory notes in an aggregate principal amount of $1,750,000, with an interest rate of ten percent per annum , maturing in one year, and three-year warrants to purchase ...




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