** OPENING GRAIN CALLS **  Corn: 3 to 5 cents higher; demand improvements.  Wheat: 1 to 3
cents lower; selling limited by demand news.  Soybeans: Narrowly mixed; waiting for updated
South American weather.  Meal: Mixed; following soybeans….

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Soybean futures ended 1 1/2 to 3 3/4 cents lower in old-crop contracts, while new-crop contracts
were fractionally higher. For the week, soybean futures extended the recent rally with moderate
gains. Argentina is forecast to get rains next week….

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The union representing locked-out employees at American Crystal Sugar. Co. plans to lobby against the federal sugar program in Congress, breaking a tradition of fighting for the program alongside farmers and the company.

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NAGPUR: Moving one step ahead in the development of a technology to produce biodiesel from algae, the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Neeri) is now planning to scale up the technology to industrial scale in collaboration with Purti Power and Sugar Ltd. If the scaling up yields good results, the technology would be commercialized by… Read more

Australian cane growers say a tax on foods containing high sugar levels isn\’t neccessary.

Sugar Regulatory Administration chief Ma. Regina Bautista-Martin yesterday denied that Sugar Order No. 7, Series of 2011-2012, prescribing the deadline for verification of A sugar or U.S. quota sugar on January 31, will lead to homeless sugar.

AUSTRALIA\’S biggest exporter of raw sugar, Queensland Sugar, cannot keep pace with demand and sees potential to expand production, particularly in the north of the country, its acting chief executive officer, Greg Beashel, said.

The Bakery Worker\’s union now will lobby against the sugar program in Congress, according to a union official, breaking a long tradition of fighting for the program with farmers and American Crystal Sugar Co.