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Brazil says key soy road won’t be paved until 2016

Jan. 13, 2015 at 4:51 pm CST

Brasilia | Reuters –– An important road for soy and corn shipments linking to ports in northern Brazil will not be paved until 2016, the country’s transport minister said on Tuesday. President Dilma Rousseff said last year that the highway, known as BR-163, would be ready by mid-2015 as the […]

Russia seen adding new informal grain export curbs in 2015

Jan. 13, 2015 at 4:39 pm CST

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U.S. shippers say West Coast ports near gridlock on stalled contract talks

Jan. 13, 2015 at 4:30 pm CST

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Food issues won’t block EU-U.S. trade deal, German minister says

Jan. 12, 2015 at 10:56 pm CST

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China arrests over 110 people for selling contaminated pork

Jan. 12, 2015 at 4:23 pm CST

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China bans U.S. poultry, eggs imports amid avian flu fears

Jan. 12, 2015 at 4:03 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — China has banned all imports of U.S. poultry, poultry products and eggs amid recent reports of highly pathogenic strains of avian influenza found in the Pacific Northwest, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday. All such products currently en route to the country will either be […]

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Cargill to shutter U.S. turkey plant

Jan. 9, 2015 at 9:18 pm CST

Reuters — Agricultural conglomerate Cargill said Friday it will shutter its turkey and cooked meats processing plant in Springfield, Mo., and move the operations to Nebraska City, Nebraska, and Waco, Texas. Cargill said it will close its Springfield plant, which employs 118 people, on March 11. The decision came about […]

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Egypt says wheat stocks enough to last until early May

Jan. 9, 2015 at 11:55 am CST

Cairo | Reuters — Egypt’s stock of wheat for its subsidized bread program will last until the first week of May, well into the start of the local harvest, after it bought 180,000 tonnes this week, Supplies Minister Khaled Hanafi said Friday. Hanafi said in a statement he expected new […]

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Brazil exported 3.3 per cent more beef in 2014, industry says

Jan. 8, 2015 at 5:39 pm CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil, the world’s top beef exporter, shipped 1.56 million tonnes of meat abroad in 2014, 3.3 per cent more than it did in 2013, industry association Abiec said on Thursday. Volumes exported were near the 2007 record of 1.62 million tonnes. Beef exports by value […]

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Korea says cattle found infected with foot-and-mouth

Jan. 6, 2015 at 5:25 pm CST

Seoul | Reuters –– South Korea said Tuesday that foot-and-mouth had spread to a cattle farm in the country for the first time in more than three years, a blow to authorities battling to contain an outbreak of the disease. The outbreak was discovered around half a year ago on […]

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