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First case of soybean rust in US
11/11/2004 - The US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service yesterday confirmed the presence of the country’s first case of soybean rust, found on soybean leaf samples taken from two plots in Louisiana.
The fungus that hinders plant growth and drastically cuts crop production first appeared in Brazil in 2001 caused the loss of 4.5 million tonnes of soybeans in the 2003-04 (October-September) season.
However the detection comes at a time when most US soybeans have been harvested, and the US department of agriculture said the impact of the fungus should be minimal this year.
Nevertheless soybean prices rose about 3 per cent yesterday on the Chicago Board of Trade, largely due to news of the disease.
Prices for the crop, increasingly used as a health food ingredient, reached 15 year highs in recent months on the back of a drawdown in global stocks last year. Read More...
First case of soybean rust in US
First case of soybean rust in US
11/11/2004 - The US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service yesterday confirmed the presence of the country’s first case of soybean rust, found on soybean leaf samples taken from two plots in Louisiana.
The fungus that hinders plant growth and drastically cuts crop production first appeared in Brazil in 2001 caused the loss of 4.5 million tonnes of soybeans in the 2003-04 (October-September) season.
However the detection comes at a time when most US soybeans have been harvested, and the US department of agriculture said the impact of the fungus should be minimal this year.
Nevertheless soybean prices rose about 3 per cent yesterday on the Chicago Board of Trade, largely due to news of the disease.
Prices for the crop, increasingly used as a health food ingredient, reached 15 year highs in recent months on the back of a drawdown in global stocks last year. Read More...
First case of soybean rust in US
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