July 17, 2014 | Grain

Will become an origination point in the south for soybeans, corn, milo and wheat

July 07, 2014 | Grain

Sharp eyespot is spreading through Willamette Valley wheat fields, in some cases infecting as much as 50% of individual fields.

July 06, 2014 | Grain | Commerce

New proceeding to explore whether a new approach is needed to allow captive shippers to challenge grain rail rates

July 03, 2014 | Grain

The facility will have nearly 3 million bushels of storage and is designed to load out 110 car shuttle trains

July 01, 2014 | Feed | Grain

Acknowledges the outstanding achievements of women in the ag sector

July 01, 2014 | Grain

Corn crop is still holding up as 75% is rated as either good or excellent

July 01, 2014 | Grain

With a recent spell of heavy rains in the major crop regions and a somewhat delayed start to the planting season, there has been increasing uncertainty looming over the commodity market and trading activities of both crops as the question how much has been planted was looking for an answer.

June 30, 2014 | Feed | Grain

More than 600 industry experts are expected to convene at the Summit to explore the most pressing challenges facing the oilseed, protein meals, vegetable oils and grain sectors, and forecast market trends to come.

February 19, 2014 | Grain

For decades, China's rulers deemed grain production a linchpin to its national security. The policy of self-sufficiency was a legacy of its planned economy from the days of Mao when China was increasingly isolated from the outside world.

But China's communist founders couldn't have predicted the nation's dizzying rise in meat consumption, which has grown nearly ten-fold to 71 million metric tons since 1975.

That's why China has been increasingly importing grains such as soybeans and corn from the U.S. and Brazil to boost its livestock population. Grain self-sufficiency was becoming like communist dogma in China: more a theory than a practice.

Then last week, Beijing called it quits by...

February 12, 2014 | Grain

Broken Arrow, OK – Oseco, a global manufacturer of custom-engineered rupture discs and explosion vents, has developed the new, heavy duty MV-BE (Metal Vent Bucket Elevator), an explosion vent offering robust explosion protection for the grain handling industry.

The MV-BE explosion vent is designed utilizing materials up to three times thicker than other designs, providing excellent service life to conveying/bucket elevators operating under high vibration conditions or other demanding applications.

Grain storage facilities typically utilize a bucket elevator or pneumatic conveyor to scoop up grain from a lower level and deposit it into a storage facility or silo. Larger elevators with...