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Posted on September 1st, 2010 in Agriculture, Biofuels, Brazil, Global Commodities, Global Weather, Grains, Sugar, drought, food, futures with no comments
Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD
VP, Applied Technology & Research
Readers of this column should no doubt be aware of our bias towards the importance of India with respect to the amount of physical sugar that is available to the world market at any given time. We have stated numerous times that the sub-optimal pattern with respect to [...]
Posted on September 1st, 2010 in Energy, Global Weather, Hurricanes, United States, satellites with no comments
Weather wires are buzzing this morning with talk of Hurricane Earl, as they should be – this is a big system with a lot of energy. But don’t lose sight of what is following behind Earl. While Fiona looks to take a track farther to the east, the system in the central Atlantic has organized [...]
Posted on August 30th, 2010 in Agriculture, Global Weather, India, Sugar, monsoon with no comments
current water vapor satellite (Kalpana)…quiet
Posted on August 30th, 2010 in Global Weather, Hurricanes with no comments
Posted on August 26th, 2010 in Agriculture, Global Commodities, Global Weather, India, food, futures, monsoon with no comments
Author: Michael Ferrari, PhD
VP, Applied Technology & Research
The seasonal rainfall in the northern Indian sugarcane producing regions is still deficient, despite an improvement in the country weighted average (moving from -5% to -2% since last week). Rainfall over Uttar Pradesh has been consistent over the last three days, and looks to remain favorable for the [...]