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Mario Segovia and Orlando Rojas, members of the Atacama fog catcher group, check a hydroponic lettuce crop produced with water captured by fog catchers, meshes suspended between two poles that intercept small bits of moisture to collect water from the air in the Atacama Desert, in Chanaral, Chile June 10, 2025.

In Chile’s Atacama, world’s driest desert, growing lettuces with fog

Jun. 24, 2025 at 10:14 am CDT

In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a net to catch drops of moisture from fog.

Male arm count hundred dollar bills closeup.

Canada’s annual inflation unchanged at 1.7 per cent in May, core measures slightly ease

Jun. 24, 2025 at 9:56 am CDT

By Promit Mukherjee Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans slump on ‘greenhouse’ weather in US

Jun. 23, 2025 at 4:22 pm CDT

By Renee Hickman Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans slip on profit-taking, favourable Midwest weather

Jun. 20, 2025 at 4:17 pm CDT

By Karl Plume Reuters

China’s May soybean imports from Brazil jump 37.5 per cent year over year

Jun. 20, 2025 at 10:04 am CDT

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‘Amber waves of grain’ recede in America’s heartland as wheat farmers struggle

Jun. 20, 2025 at 10:00 am CDT

The Great Plains have long been celebrated for the “amber waves of grain” in the popular hymn “America the Beautiful.” The region’s states produce most of the U.S.-grown crop of hard red winter wheat, favored by bakers for bread. But with prices hovering around $5 (C$6.86) per bushel, U.S. wheat farmers have reached an inflection point, with many forced to either lose money, feed wheat to cattle or kill off the crop.

By Emily Schmall Reuters

Canola seed pours from a combine into a grain cart.

Indian rapeseed meal exports soar as China replaces Canadian canola supply

Jun. 19, 2025 at 9:09 am CDT

China is set to make record purchases of rapeseed meal from India following Beijing's move to impose a 100 per cent retaliatory tariff on Canadian canola imports, senior industry officials said.

By rajendra-jadhav Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat surges four per cent on short-covering, lifting corn and soy

Jun. 18, 2025 at 6:43 pm CDT

Benchmark Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures jumped more than four per cent on Wednesday as weather worries in parts of the United States and Europe, coupled with signs of fresh global export business, prompted speculators to cover short positions, brokers said.

By Julie Ingwersen Reuters

USDA plans sterile fly facility in Texas to combat screwworm

Jun. 18, 2025 at 3:54 pm CDT

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced plans on Wednesday to open a sterile fly dispersal facility in Hidalgo County, Texas, as part of the country's effort to fight the encroachment of New World screwworm.

By Leah Douglas Reuters

A man cleans a tractor at a sanitary barrier, after Brazil confirmed its first outbreak of bird flu on Friday, triggering protocols for a country-wide trade ban from top buyer China and state-wide restrictions for other major consumers, in Montenegro, Brazil

Brazil poised to declare itself bird flu ‘free,’ state official says

Jun. 18, 2025 at 10:10 am CDT

Brazil is ready to declare the country free of the bird flu virus on commercial flocks, Edivilson Brum, the head of Rio Grande do Sul state’s agriculture department, said on Wednesday in a statement.

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