soyabeans

Partly for that reason, Brazil is not the cheapest place in the world to grow soyabeans (Argentina is, followed by the American Midwest).

That in turn influences how much land is planted to soyabeans, which for American farmers are interchangeable with maize.

The notes are designed for investors with a bullish view over the next year to year and a half on the price of pork, rice and soyabeans.

Argentina's economy is still booming, fuelled by high prices for a bumper harvest of soyabeans and the rapid growth of neighbouring Brazil.

America insisted that its farmers be allowed to sell more produce in countries like China, which buys around 40% of its soyabeans.

Investors in mining, which many Argentines tout as the "new soyabeans" , are nervous. The bill has not been approved.

China's leaders now worry about overcapacity in a number of sectors, from steel, cement and aluminium to crushed soyabeans.

Farmers' profits increased by 33%, and the cultivation of soyabeans increased by an average of 19% in districts with kiosks.

Eventually, however, China will inevitably have to import large amounts of corn, as well as soyabeans.

Simply stated, as the price of corn and soyabeans increases, the economics of producing these commodities improves.

The country is now the world's biggest exporter of five internationally traded crops, and number two in soyabeans and maize.

The report also cites three commodities that are particularly tied to China's growth: copper, above all; then soyabeans; and oil.

China and India, meanwhile, have produced record amounts of soyabeans, while Thailand and Vietnam have harvested bumper crops of rice.

Greg Wagner of Horizon Ag Strategies in Chicago said supplies of soyabeans and wheat had now tightened to "very uncomfortable levels" .

As palm yields more oil per hectare of land than soyabeans, rapeseed or sunflowers "any substitute would need more land" , says Harrison.

He points out that America exports masses of wheat, soyabeans and corn, and talks of "convert[ing] those export acres to biofuels" .

Investors in mining, which many Argentines tout as the "new soyabeans" , are nervous.

Third, and most important, Embrapa turned soyabeans into a tropical crop.

China has continued to buy substantial volumes of US soyabeans in recent days and ordered 113, 000 tonnes on Wednesday.

Dreyfus, which already trades sugar, soyabeans and other Brazilian agricultural goods, wanted to bolster its position.

During the ancient Zhou dynasty, soyabeans were among China's five sacred grains.

The economy is growing fast, thanks to high world prices for soyabeans and other farm exports and to a credit boom.

Wheat and milk prices have surged to all-time highs while those for corn and soyabeans stand at well above their 1990s averages.

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The US is the world's largest exporter of soyabeans and cotton, commodities for which China is the world's top importer.

China, for example, has accounted for up to 40 per cent of the increase in global consumption of soyabeans and meat over the past decade.

After buying record volumes of US soyabeans for its reserves this year, China said yesterday it would sell 500, 000 tonnes.

Besides, Brazil produces more than just soyabeans.

Commodities from soyabeans to copper have doubled.

China is already the world's largest importer of soyabeans, also an animal feed ingredient.

Brazil claims tariffs on soyabean oil are nine times higher than the charge on raw soyabeans.

The price of soyabeans, Argentina's main export, has set a series of record highs.

Soyabeans and platinum, among others, have also reached record prices in the past week.

Meanwhile, aggregate production of maize, rice and soyabeans stagnated in 2006 and 2007.

But there are few non-tariff barriers on products like soyabeans and cotton.

If genetic selection can be extended to wheat, rice and soyabeans, that should go a long way to feeding the world by 2050.

In 1973 Richard Nixon, US president, under political pressure because of rising domestic food prices, banned the export of soyabeans.

This spring Mr Pisa will reap around 3 tonnes of soyabeans per hectare.

Output of soyabeans (most of which are fed to animals) will more than double, to 515m tonnes.

China has approved genetically modified soyabeans from the US, for example, and does not cap imports.

Yesterday, November soyabeans, the first contract for the 2009-10 season, broke above the $10 a bushel mark, jumping 23? cents to $10. 19? .

CBOT May soyabeans gained 7? cents at $13. 05 a bushel.

The strength of Brazil's currency, for example, may partly reflect the high price of exports such as soyabeans.

Improving the soil and the new tropical soyabeans were both needed for farming the cerrado;

Is this bag of soyabeans as heavy as that one?