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Exclusive: Ivory Coast halts cocoa forward sales as rains hit production

Ivory Coast has stopped selling contracts for cocoa exports for the 2023-2024 season after heavy rains battered and flooded farms in the world's top cocoa-producing nation in recent weeks, the head of the country's cocoa sector regulator told Reuters.

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Factbox: Hottest spots in U.S. as heat wave blankets Southwest

Nearly 100 million Americans are facing a prolonged spell of sweltering weather this week, with the National Weather Forecast issuing heat advisories for many cities and towns across the country. In many places in the Southwest, where hot summers are the norm, extreme temperatures are in the forecast.

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Column: US corn conditions make rare improvement after weather flip

The U.S. corn crop was seemingly fast-tracking to disaster last month amid historically dry weather, but July has so far featured a wetter and cooler pattern for many top-producing states, aiding in recovery.

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El Nino will brew up potent new economic storm

Just when you thought it was safe to hope interest rates might soon peak, along comes more bad news. It looks likely that the El Nino weather phenomenon has returned, according to both the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Its appearance usually results in, or exacerbates, floods, heatwaves, water scarcity and wildfires, especially in the southern hemisphere. The damage these inflict on crops and infrastructure is inflationary, putting pressure on central banks to tighten monetary policy. If climate change makes such events stronger and more frequent, supply shocks will become embedded.

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Temperatures seen surging as El Nino weather pattern returns

Temperatures are expected to soar across large parts of the world after the El Nino weather pattern emerged in the tropical Pacific for the first time in seven years, the World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday.

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Chile's bee colonies devastated by floods after fires

Extreme weather events in Chile, including major recent floods and wildfires earlier this year, are devastating colonies of the humble bee, a key pollinator for crops of avocados and almonds in one of the global south's key food producing countries.

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Flooding hits Ivory Coast cocoa mid crop, could hinder next main crop

Above-average rain in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa regions last week has flooded plantations and could affect the start of the next October-to-March main crop, farmers said on Monday.

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Column: Crop Watch: Corn, soy conditions mixed after spotty rain

After some scattered rain across the U.S. Corn Belt over the weekend, about half of the Crop Watch producers are satisfied with recent rainfall totals. For the rest, rain showers were too light and anxiety over dryness remains.

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Rhine water levels in Germany close to normal after rain, north too shallow

Water levels on the Rhine in Germany were close to normal levels on much of the river after heavy rain last week but remained too shallow in some northern and central areas for cargo vessels to sail fully loaded, commodity traders said on Monday.

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Chile official warns of 'worst front in a decade' after floods, evacuations

Days of heavy rainfall have swollen Chile's rivers causing floods that blocked off roads and prompted evacuation in the center of the country, amid what has been described as the worst weather front in a decade.

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