WASHINGTON - Dec 1/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending November 23 rose, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ADDIS ABABA - Dec 5/05 - IRIN -- Critical rains have failed in eastern Ethiopia, raising fears for vulnerable pastoral communities already living under precarious circumstances, aid organizations warned on Friday. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WAJID - Dec 7/05 - IRIN -- Leaders in Somalia have urged the international community to help feed inhabitants of the southern region, where rain failure has led to the lowest cereal production in a decade and cattle dying for lack of water and pasture. . . . Continue or visitors click here

MAPUTO, 8 December (IRIN) - Mozambique has to develop a more systematic response to chronic drought, which is having a devastating effect on the food security and livelihoods of around 800,000 people, according to a recent assessment. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Dec 8/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending November 30 slipped, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

CHICAGO - Dec 9/05 - SNS -- International agricultural commodity markets finished the week on a relatively busy note, ignoring any uncertainty preceding the release of today's USDA updated supply and demand reports for grains and oilseeds. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ADDIS ABABA - Dec 15/05 - IRIN -- Food security in Ethiopia is improving thanks to a good harvest, rising coffee prices in the world market and better aid distribution, a famine early warning network said on Thursday. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Dec 15/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending December 7 slipped, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about U.S. Hops Production By Variety -- 2005 . . . Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON - Dec 16/05 - SNS -- Hops production totaled 52.9 million pounds for Idaho, Oregon, and Washington this year, down 4% from the 2004 crop of 55.2 million pounds, and 3% below the 2003 production of 54.6 million pounds, according to the USDA. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Dec 19/05 - IRIN -- The Kenyan government has appealed for urgent food aid, saying hundreds of thousands of people in arid and semi-arid areas in the east and northeast will go hungry because the short rains have failed. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI Dec 22/05 - SNS -- An estimated two million people in southern Somalia are facing an imminent humanitarian emergency and acute livelihood crisis over the next six months, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Dec 29/05 - IRIN -- The delayed onset of the October-February rainy season in Djibouti has led to worsening food insecurity in pastoral areas due to lack of pasture and water in the coastal dry period grazing areas, a famine alert agency has reported. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about U.S. Hops Prices Received - Dec 2005 . . . Subscribers Only

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