Corn Exports To China Fall
What was the fastest growing market for US corn has turned cold after the Chinese said the corn contained some varieties that were unapproved genetically modified . As of late July China also banned distillers grain from the US used as a feed.The news comes as the US corn crop looks like bin busting 14 billion bushel variety.To make matters worse the rails are clogged with oil cars making it harder for midwestern farmers to move their corn.
Tulare feed company owner Scot Hillman gave a speech recently saying that the big rail companies used 9,500 oil tankers and 950 frac sand cars along the North Dakota corridor in 2008 and 395,000 oil tankers and 275,000 frac sand cars on the same rail path in 2013.
A recent Wall St journal article quoted a broker.”We’re going to see corn in piles all over the Midwest, and it’s going to take forever to eat through it all,” said Jamey Kohake, a commodities broker at Paragon Investments in Silver Lake, Kan., who is advising his clients to sell grain on any price rallies and not hold onto corn through the winter.”
State’s Grape Crop Volume Expected To Drop
California’s wine type grape production is forecast at 3.90 million tons, down 8 percent from 2013 and represents 55 percent of California’s total grape crop. California’s raisin type grape production is forecast at 1.95 million tons, down 13 percent from last year and represents 28 percent of California’s total grape crop. California’s table type grape production is forecast at 1.20 million tons, down 2 percent from the previous year.
Sunkist Pushes Lemons To Reduce Salt Intake
Using Sunkist lemons instead of salt to flavor your next meal is an all-natural way to cut sodium by as much as 75 percent in a variety of recipes without compromising flavor.That is the story the co-op is telling consumers from research done by master chefs at Johnson & Wales University.According to a 2010 study by Bibbins-Domingo, if every American reduced his or her daily sodium intake by 400 milligrams, 32,000 heart attacks, 20,000 strokes and 28,000 deaths could be prevented each year.
Frozen Food Sales Down
Migration News reports “Frozen food sales, including frozen dinners, are falling, as many consumers switch toward fresh food. Clarence Birdseye invented a way to quick freeze fish in the early 1920s that preserved its flavor, and the growth of suburbia in the 1950s, the baby boom, and larger freezers encouraged more consumers to buy frozen food.
Consumers began turning away from frozen food in the late 1990s, as both supermarkets and restaurants began to offer more fresh foods. TV cooking shows contributed to the sense that fresh is best, despite ads from the American Frozen Food Institute emphasizing that freezing can preserve nutrients in food better than fresh produce sitting out in the supermarket.”
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that “Frozen-food sales, by dollars, have lagged behind the rate of inflation the past four years, and sales by number of units have fallen. Dollar sales of frozen juice, chicken and pizza all are down since 2009, according to market-research company Nielsen. And sales of frozen meals fell 3% to $8.92 billion from 2009 through 2013, according to Euromonitor International.”