CHICAGO - Feb 2/05 - SNS -- Trading volume on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) rose 9.6% in January to 45,158,094 contracts in all trading pits. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BRUSSELS - Feb 3/05 - SNS -- Conditions for agricultural trade between the European Union (EU) and Switzerland will be eased under agreements reached between the two entities. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 3/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending January 26 was up from the previous week, for its second week over week increase, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW YORK - Feb 3/05 - SNS -- Worldwide demand for agricultural equipment is expected to be flat in 2005, CNH Global N.V. told its shareholders in its fourth quarter financial report released today. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ADDIS ABABA - Feb 4/05 - IRIN -- A bumper harvest is anticipated in Ethiopia in 2005, but many Ethiopians will still need humanitarian aid, UN officials said this week. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW DELHI - Feb 7/05 - SNS -- Plant breeders at Haryana Agricultural University and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics have created a pearl millet hybrid resistant to downy mildew disease. . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG, 8 February (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) requires urgent funding in order to avoid further cuts to its aid CARS in Angola, the agency's country director Rick Corsino told IRIN. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 10/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending January 26 was down from the previous week, ending two weeks of increased unloads, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 11/05 - SNS -- The USDA is making three new spring wheat germplasm lines to plant breeders interested in creating commercial wheat varieties resistant to the Hessian fly. . . . Continue or visitors click here

TORONTO - Feb 14/05 - SNS -- CN and the United Transportation Union (UTU) signed a tentative labour contract covering approximately 2,600 conductors, assistant conductors, yard service employees and traffic coordinators in Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about U.S. Average Annual Hops Values -- 2002-04 . . . Subscribers Only

A table about U.S. Average Annual Hay Values -- 2002-04 . . . Subscribers Only

A table about U.S. Average Annual Alfalfa Hay Values -- 2002-04 . . . Subscribers Only

A table about U.S. Average Annual Non-Alfalfa Hay Values -- 2002-04 . . . Subscribers Only

ROME - Feb 16/05 - SNS -- Agricultural commodity prices are caught in along term decline which threatens food security in some of the world's poorest countries because selling excess food production is often the only source of cash, warns the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Feb 17/05 - IRIN -- Displaced families in the western Sudanese region of Darfur are likely to be affected by the large shortfall in donations of non-cereal food items received so far, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW YORK - Feb 17/05 - SNS -- Wilbur Chocolate Co., a Cargill subsidiary, introduced a cinnamon drop that offers zero grams of trans-fats per serving to help the baking industry become compliant with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirement that food and confection manufacturers list trans-fat content on food nutrition labels beginning January 1, 2006. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 17/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending February 2 was up from the previous week, offsetting some of the previous week's declines, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 17/05 - SNS -- Grain inspections in the Great Lakes region rose 2% in 2004 to 3.77 million metric tons (MT) of corn, wheat and soybeans, according to the USDA/ Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS). . . . Continue or visitors click here

NAIROBI - Feb 21/05 - IRIN -- Millions of people are at risk of starvation unless the international community acts quickly on the situation in the war-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur, Jan Egeland, the UN's emergency relief coordinator, said. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 23/05 - SNS -- The USDA is seeking input to help determine the representative base period for a proposed marketing agreement and order for hops grown in California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington State. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Feb 24/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending February 16 was up from the previous week, for its second weekly increase, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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