Loading…
Kentucky's agriculture commissioner requested emergency EPA approval of the pesticide Sivanto Prime to fight sugarcane aphids, which destroyed much of last year's sweet sorghum crop. Aphids last year caused 30 to 50 percent losses in several US states.
Aphid pressure threatens sorghum yields in the US, and effective control reduces the risk of supply losses, though the effect on national grain prices is likely small.
wkms.orgysabel lavitzJun 26, 2017Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
