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Miscellaneous Commodity market news for Oct 2005


Malnutrition Alarmingly High in Sudan

NAIROBI - Oct 4/05 - IRIN -- Malnutrition levels in southern Sudan are alarmingly high and have been above the emergency threshold for the past three years, a report released by the NGO, Action Against Hunger (AAH), said. . . . Continue or visitors click here


Malawi's Hungry Season Arrives Early

BANGWE - Oct 4/05 - IRIN -- In Malawi's drought-hit southern district of Bangwe, people begin queuing as early as 3.00 a.m. outside the depot of the state grain marketer Admarc for subsidized maize-meal. . . . Continue or visitors click here


Zimbabwe's Farmers Exhaust Reserves

JOHANNESBURG - Oct 4/05 - IRIN -- Poor rural households in drought-ravaged southern Zimbabwe have exhausted their food stocks and are resorting to eating wild roots in a bid to stave off hunger. . . . Continue or visitors click here


Weekly U.S. Rail Loadings Jump

WASHINGTON - Oct 6/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending September 28 rose, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here


Shipping to Mexico Gets Cheaper

WASHINGTON - Oct 6/05 - SNS -- The cost of shipping grain by water routes to Mexico continues to decline, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here


USDA Sets QSVP Fees

WASHINGTON - Oct 7/05 - SNS -- The USDA has set fees for administering the Quality Systems Verification Programs (QSVP). . . . Continue or visitors click here


Earthquake Devastates Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Oct 9/05 - IRIN -- Disaster assessment teams arriving in Pakistan on Sunday said very large numbers of people had been affected by Saturday's devastating earthquake that killed more than 20,000 people, according to officials, in a belt stretching from Afghanistan across northern Pakistan and into India. . . . Continue or visitors click here


U.S. Hay Harvest Down From 2004

WASHINGTON - Oct 12/05 - SNS -- Production of hay other than alfalfa is forecast at 76.9 million tons, up 1% from August but down 7% from the U.S.'s 2004 harvest, according to the latest USDA crop production estimates. . . . Continue or visitors click here


Alfalfa Harvest Rises 1%

WASHINGTON - Oct 12/05 - SNS -- Alfalfa and alfalfa mixture production in the United States is forecast at 75.9 million tons, up 3% from the August forecast and up 1% from last year, according to the latest USDA crop production estimates. . . . Continue or visitors click here


North Korea Asks End of Humanitarian Aid

ROME - Oct 13/05 - SNS -- The North Korean government has asked the United Nations to end all humanitarian aid by the end of the year, although development aid is still sought. . . . Continue or visitors click here


Weekly U.S. Rail Loadings Jump

WASHINGTON - Oct 13/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending October 5 rose, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here


AFBF Wants Market Access for Lower U.S. Subsidies

LANSING - Oct 13/05 - MFB -- The United States on Monday proposed some major changes to its domestic agricultural support programs in an effort to jump start the upcoming Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) trade talks. . . . Continue or visitors click here


Malawi Declares Food Emergency

JOHANNESBURG - Oct 17/05 - IRIN -- Malawi's worsening food crisis has been seized on by opponents of President Bingu wa Mutharika, intent on forcing him out of office. . . . Continue or visitors click here


Drought Hurts Parts of Kenya

NAIROBI - Oct 18/05 - IRIN -- After several seasons of poor rainfall, food availability has deteriorated among drought-affected farm households in Kenya's southeastern and coastal lowlands, as well as among farmers in the northeast, a famine early warning agency said. . . . Continue or visitors click here


Lesotho Food Aid Needs Rising

JOHANNESBURG - Oct 18/05 - IRIN -- Funding shortages continue to bedevil food aid distributions in Lesotho as the country grapples with yet another year of shortages. . . . Continue or visitors click here


More Oversight of U.S. Railways Sought

WASHINGTON - Oct 18/05 - SNS -- More regulatory oversight of the U.S. rail system is needed to ensure agriculture's long term capacity needs are met, argues the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) in testimony it will give tomorrow about before a Surface Transportation Board (STB) public hearing on the 25th anniversary of the Staggers Rail Act. . . . Continue or visitors click here


Mozambique Food Security Doubted

MAPUTO - Oct 20/05 - IRIN -- Preliminary findings from a food and nutritional assessment survey indicate that conditions in drought-affected southern Mozambique have deteriorated, a food security official told IRIN. . . . Continue or visitors click here


Weekly U.S. Rail Loadings Rixe

WASHINGTON - Oct 20/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending October 12 rose, according to the USDA's Transportation and Marketing Programs/Transportation Services Branch weekly Grain Transportation Report. . . . Continue or visitors click here


Weekly U.S. Rail Loadings Drop

WASHINGTON - Oct 27/05 - SNS -- The number of carloads of grains and oilseeds delivered to U.S. ports for the week ending October 19 declined, 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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