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            <title><![CDATA[Cocoa, Coffee Pace Weekly Declines on Signs of Ample Inventory]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:45:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cocoa Caps Biggest Weekly Gain Since 2001 on West Africa Jitters]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:54:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Coffee Rises to Nine-Week High After Storm Slams Central America]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:31:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[CORRECT: JBS CFO Says Meat From Brazil, Australia Can Go to U.S.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2020 20:31:57 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[World Cotton Group Blasts Alarm: ‘Utter Chaos’ for Supply Chain]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:12:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Coffee Defies Coronavirus Rout With Biggest Rally in Three Years]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 10:41:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Agribusiness Giant Cargill Lifts Bet on U.S. Plant-Protein Craze]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:42:49 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Midwest Deluge Spurs Cut in U.S. Estimate for Soybean Acreage]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:17:41 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Corn, Wheat Spike After U.S. Cuts Forecasts on Midwest Flooding]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:09:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mexican Avocado Price Jumps to Highest Since August 2017]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2019 15:04:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[CME to Publish Bacon Index After 2011 Pork-Belly Futures Demise]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2019 16:18:13 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Cooked bacon slices are arranged for a photograph in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Declining supplies of pigs that resulted from a deadly virus that spread across 30 states since the outbreak began last year have pushed up retail-bacon prices 10 percent in 2014 to $6.106 a pound in June, the highest since at least 1980. Photographer: Andrew Harrer</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bunge Names Acting CEO, Cuts Outlook on Soybean, Sugar Shortfall]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:31:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Orange Is the New Red as 2019 Kicks Off With Juice Prices at Fresh Low]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:33:32 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Workers select recently harvested clementines on a conveyor belt in the Naranjas Torres fruit processing center, operated by Torres Hermanos y Sucesores SA in Almenara, Spain, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Spain&apos;s expansion probably accelerated in the fourth quarter of last year, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said this week. Photographer: Angel Navarrete</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[USDA Is Wrong on Oranges and Hurricane Irma, Florida Growers Group Says]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 18:10:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Chicken Wings Rally on Appetite for Super Bowl Munchies: Chart]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The U.S. wholesale price of chicken wings, a staple of Super Bowl parties across the country, has climbed in the past eight weeks, the longest rally in two years. Before Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7, the cost at $1.705 a pound still is 4 cents lower than the XLIX price and down more than 10 cents from last year’s peak in the throes of March Madness. The National Chicken Council says peckish Americans will eat 1.3 billion wings this weekend, up 3 percent from 2015. Sales in Charlotte, North Carolina,]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:33:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kullman to Retire as DuPont Chair, CEO]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:21:59 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cargill CEO MacLennan Elected as Chairman of the Board]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:26:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Perdue Farms to Buy Natural Food Holdings From LNK Partners]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:31:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Iowa Reports 4 Million More Hens Have Bird Flu as Toll Mounts]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2015 22:02:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gold Erases Losses After ADP Jobs Data Trails Analyst Estimates]]></title>
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