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Couche-Tard to buy Corner Store owner in US$4.4B deal

Aug. 22, 2016 at 6:39 pm CDT

Reuters — Canadian convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard said on Monday it would buy U.S. convenience store chain CST Brands in a deal valued at about US$4.4 billion, boosting its presence in the southeastern U.S. and Eastern Canada. San Antonio, Texas-based CST is one of the largest publicly traded fuel […]

U.S. watchdog clears ChemChina’s takeover of Syngenta

Aug. 22, 2016 at 6:06 pm CDT

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Tisdale drops ‘Land of Rape and Honey’ slogan

Aug. 22, 2016 at 4:49 pm CDT

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Monsanto reported giving Bayer limited access to its books

Aug. 17, 2016 at 4:26 pm CDT

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Lack of grain storage seen as record Russian crop looms

Aug. 16, 2016 at 4:49 pm CDT

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Trump names six U.S. governors as ag advisors

Aug. 16, 2016 at 4:39 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump named 64 agriculture policy advisors on Tuesday, including the governors of Iowa and five other farm states and a former federal agriculture secretary. The announcement came as Trump, a New York businessman seeking his first elected office, looks to improve his […]

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Egypt tightens import quarantine rules on grains

Aug. 16, 2016 at 12:34 pm CDT

Cairo | Reuters — Egypt has tightened its agriculture quarantine regulations, imposing a rule that will prevent grain shipments suspected of contamination from being offloaded until they receive test results, according to a letter sent to traders Monday. The rule comes just one month after the world’s biggest wheat buyer […]

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Egypt public prosecutor orders 13 arrested in wheat corruption case

Aug. 15, 2016 at 6:34 pm CDT

Cairo | Reuters — Egypt’s public prosecutor has ordered the arrest of 13 people for 15 days pending an investigation into their role in a wheat procurement corruption scandal, judicial sources said on Saturday. Egypt, the world’s largest wheat importer, has been mired in controversy over its wheat supplies, with […]

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Britain to plug EU funding gap for farms, colleges

Aug. 15, 2016 at 6:28 pm CDT

London | Reuters — Britain will fill a gap of as much as 4.5 billion pounds (C$7.5 billion) in funding for agriculture, universities and its regions that will open up when Britain leaves the European Union, finance minister Philip Hammond said. Scientists, farmers and others who got EU funding were […]

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JBS quarterly profits beat expectations

Aug. 11, 2016 at 7:52 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s JBS SA, the world’s largest meat processor, posted better than expected second-quarter profits on Wednesday, helped by a sharp increase in revenues from its pork business in the U.S., said the company. São Paulo-based JBS earned 1.657 billion reais (C$650 million) in net income […]

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