UPDATE 1-Food prices rise but 2013 cereal crop looks strong

Core Tip: The FAO Food Price Index averaged 215.5 points in April 2013, up two points (1.0 per cent) from its revised March value of 213.2 points and from April last year. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 215.5 points in April 2013, up two points ...

Assuming more normal weather conditions than in 2012, global wheat production in 2013 is expected to reach 695 million tonnes, 5.4 percent up from last year's harvest and just some 6 million tonnes short of the 2011 record level. And in 2013, coarse ...

World food prices rose in March as dairy costs jumped on a drought in New Zealand that hurt milk output and as a late spring in Europe delayed a production rise, the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization said. An index of 55 food items ...

(Dow Jones Commodities News Select via Comtex) -- World food prices rose 1% in April, driven by a sharp rise in dairy prices, with levels now only 9% below their peak reached on February 2011, the United Nations food body said Thursday. The Food and ...

* Larger-than-expected U.S. corn stocks, big planting seen * Weather risks remain for growing season * Lower corn price takes 2 years to impact beef - economist By Veronica Brown and Tom Polansek LONDON/CHICAGO, April 8 (Reuters) - Consumers can't ...

Muscat, May 14 (ONA)--- Recent data released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) showed that the inflation rate in the Sultanate recorded (2.3%) in March 2013, compared to March 2012, while it fell by (0.3%) compared to last ...

Bags of rice being displayed in the market Strong growth is expected for global rice, wheat and coarse grains production in 2013, an early forecast published in the May issue of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO's) monthly Cereals Supply and ...

DJ U.S. Export Sales: Weekly Sales Totals May 9 For the week ended May 2, in thousand metric tons, except cotton in thousand running bales. Net changes in commitments are gross sales, less cancellations, buy-backs and other downward adjustments.

Genghis Khan knew about hard times. The founder of the Mongol Empire, which spanned most of Eurasia until roughly 1227, Genghis and his clan had to survive on their wits and natural surroundings, often resorting to meals of green leafy things when ...