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Russian ministry proposes reducing wheat export tax

Dec. 21, 2015 at 6:25 pm CST

Moscow | Reuters — Russia’s agriculture ministry has proposed that the government reduce or cancel its wheat export tax due to rouble volatility and a decline in global wheat benchmarks, the Interfax news agency reported, citing first deputy minister Evgenii Gromyko. The rouble has lost about six per cent against […]

Saskatchewan farmland off limits for pension plans next month

Dec. 21, 2015 at 6:14 pm CST

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Mexico halts bid for COOL retaliation

Dec. 20, 2015 at 1:27 am CST

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ChemChina to sweeten bid for Syngenta to $44B

Dec. 18, 2015 at 8:54 pm CST

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Louis Dreyfus said seeking buyers for juice, fertilizer units

Dec. 18, 2015 at 8:23 pm CST

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Canada not yet pulling trade trigger on COOL

Dec. 16, 2015 at 2:41 pm CST

Canada remains “cautiously optimistic” that the U.S. government will repeal its country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law before the Canadian and Mexican governments impose retaliatory tariffs. Federal Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, speaking Wednesday from Nairobi on a conference call with reporters, said she was “not going to go into hypotheticals” about Canada’s […]

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Norfolk Southern rejects CP’s revised offer

Dec. 15, 2015 at 5:03 pm CST

Reuters — U.S. railroad operator Norfolk Southern has formally rejected a revised offer from Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), raising the prospect of a proxy battle. CP shareholder Bill Ackman said last week that CP CEO Hunter Harrison and he have both been sounded out by activists interested in a proxy […]

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French co-op InVivo plans U.S. wine deal, more food shops

Dec. 15, 2015 at 4:53 pm CST

Paris | Reuters –– French agricultural group InVivo is looking to acquire a wine distributor in the U.S. and could open up to 200 food shops in its home market as part of plans to double in size within a decade, InVivo’s CEO said on Tuesday. InVivo entered the wine […]

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Russia aiming for steady grain crop in 2016

Dec. 15, 2015 at 3:20 pm CST

Moscow | Reuters –– Russia, one of the world’s largest wheat exporters, is aiming for an unchanged grain harvest in 2016 compared with the current year, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. If the weather remains favourable during the winter and spring, Russia, a major wheat supplier to Turkey, Egypt and […]

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USDA sees farmers boosting corn, cutting soy acreage

Dec. 11, 2015 at 8:04 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday forecast that U.S. farmers will raise corn plantings and cut back on soybean acreage in the 2016-17 marketing year. USDA’s Office of the Chief Economist estimated that farmers would seed 90.5 million acres of corn during the spring, 2.1 million more […]

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