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Protesters against ICE raids and deportations across New York and the US in Foley Square on June 10, 2025 in New York.

U.S. immigration officials raid meat production plant in Omaha, dozens detained

Jun. 11, 2025 at 10:05 am CDT

An immigration raid on Tuesday at a meat production plant in Omaha, Nebraska was the "largest worksite enforcement operation" in the state during the Trump presidency, the U.S. Homeland Security Department said.

Chicago, Illinois, USA - March 28, 2022: Chicago Board of Trade office in Chicago. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges.

U.S. grains: Wheat futures sag on crop rating boost; corn, soybeans firm

Jun. 10, 2025 at 5:11 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen Reuters

Deere must face FTC’s antitrust lawsuit over repair costs, US judge rules

Jun. 10, 2025 at 12:03 pm CDT

By Mike Scarcella Reuters

China delays decision in EU pork import case amid EV tariff talks

Jun. 10, 2025 at 9:35 am CDT

By Ella Cao Reuters Ryan Woo

Detail from the front of the CBOT building in Chicago.

U.S. grains: Wheat retreats on harvest pressure; corn, soybeans end lower

Jun. 9, 2025 at 5:48 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen Reuters

Fusarium-infected wheat heads in a wheat field near Stockholm, Sask.

Experts doubt FBI’s claim that crop fungus smuggled by Chinese students is a threat

Jun. 9, 2025 at 3:04 pm CDT

A biological sample that a Chinese researcher was accused of smuggling into the United States and that prosecutors cast as a “dangerous biological pathogen” is a common type of fungus already widespread in U.S. crop fields that likely poses little risk to food safety, experts said.

By Heather Schlitz Reuters

China wants slimmer pigs

Jun. 9, 2025 at 10:21 am CDT

Chinese farmers and small firms have increasingly bought market-ready pigs from larger breeders and fattened them in a bet on higher prices, but the government is cracking down on the speculative practice to slim down hogs and stabilize the market.

By Ella Cao Lewis Jackson Reuters

A tractor and air seeder seeding into standing stubble.

Tariffs on canola seen supercharging Canadian farmers’ shift to spring wheat

Jun. 9, 2025 at 10:16 am CDT

The prospect of Chinese and U.S. tariffs on canola have prompted Western Canadian farmers to seed more wheat.

By Ed White Reuters

World food prices dip in May as cereal, sugar and vegoils drop

Jun. 6, 2025 at 3:51 pm CDT

Global food commodity prices declined in May, driven by marked drops in cereal, sugar, and vegetable oil prices, the United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday.

By Reuters Sybille De La Hamaide

U.S. grains: Chicago futures firm on weather, U.S.-China trade optimism

Jun. 6, 2025 at 3:26 pm CDT

Chicago grains and soybeans firmed on Friday as expectations improved for U.S.-China trade relations after leaders of the two countries spoke and agreed to further discussions.

By Renee Hickman Reuters