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Fed approves expanded CME Group hours By: Dow Jones Newswires 05/18/2012 @ 1:28pm

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has approved CME Group Inc.'s (CME) proposal to expand electronic grain futures trading to 21 hours per day, up from the ...

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Crop insurance payout nears $11 billion By: Jeff Caldwell 05/16/2012 @ 4:34pm

A few months ago, questions circled closer to the $9 billion mark.But now, some are speculating the crop indemnity ...

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Farmland value surge rolls on -- Fed survey By: Jeff Caldwell 05/15/2012 @ 3:31pm

Farmland values are enticing more landowners to cash in and put more acres up for sale, but the growing inventory for ...

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Grassley seeks clarity on farm bankruptcy law By: DANIEL LOOKER 05/15/2012 @ 11:32am

Chapter 12 bankruptcy, a provision of the law written for farmers who are trying to reorganize debts, was weakened by a Supreme Court ruling Monday that requires an Arizona farm couple to pay full capital ...

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CME expansion a 'defense mechanism' By: Dow Jones Newswires 05/15/2012 @ 9:42am

Expansion of trading hours for grains on CBOT seems aimed at preventing losing volumes to rival ICE, a senior agricultural economist says. Atlanta-based ICE electronic grain futures started Monday. CME had no ...

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Update: Renting land & losing money By: Jeff Caldwell 05/11/2012 @ 12:01pm

If a farm next to yours -- a piece of ground that you've been yearning to get your hands on -- comes up for rent, how far would you go to get it? Would you go far enough to make it a financially losing ...

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USDA report could turn fertilizer fortunes By: Dow Jones Newswires 05/09/2012 @ 4:40pm

A flood of US corn threatens to wash away all bullish arguments in the fertilizer sector, says Dahlman Rose as it downgrades nitrogen-fertilizer companies CF and CVR Partners (UAN) to sell and Rentech (RNF) to ...

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Iowa land rent shoots past $250/acre mark By: Jeff Caldwell 05/07/2012 @ 12:37pm

If you think farm land sale prices are high, how does an increase of $38 a year...to rent row crop acres...hit you?That's what the results of the latest Iowa State University (ISU) Extension land rental ...

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