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Merck funds tests of lower Zilmax doses

Jan. 19, 2015 at 7:43 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Merck and Co. is funding the testing of lower dosages of its controversial cattle growth drug Zilmax, in a move livestock experts say is crucial if the company is to resume sales of the product to the U.S. beef industry. Nearly 18 months after Merck pulled […]

Russia may consider grain export ban, but not yet, deputy PM says

Jan. 19, 2015 at 7:26 pm CST

By Reuters

Food diversity under siege from global warming, UN says

Jan. 19, 2015 at 7:23 pm CST

By Chris Arsenault

Refiners urge EU to rethink renewables policy after oil collapse

Jan. 19, 2015 at 7:12 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle snap eight-day losing skid

Jan. 16, 2015 at 6:03 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

Wheat models show climate change pressuring yields

Jan. 16, 2015 at 4:24 pm CST

A combination of multiple computer models of weather’s impact on wheat warns of a six per cent dent in world wheat production for every degree Celsius in temperature increase. Scientists have been trying for 20 years to estimate effects of temperature increase and climate change on wheat production, which accounts […]

By Staff

Argentina’s ‘Soy King’ abdicates in favor of biotech

Jan. 16, 2015 at 3:24 pm CST

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– The company that led the breakneck expansion of Argentine soy cultivation over the last two decades has quietly reduced the area it farms by more than half as inflation, trade restrictions and high taxes drain growers’ profits. Los Grobo, once known as the South American […]

By Hugh Bronstein

Russia’s domestic wheat prices decline due to export curbs

Jan. 16, 2015 at 2:55 pm CST

Moscow | Reuters — Russia’s domestic wheat prices have declined since the start of the year as the government has curbed exports with informal limits ahead of the introduction of an official export tax, analysts said on Friday. Russia, expected to be the world’s fourth-largest wheat exporter this year, imposed […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn rallies on bargain buying, export demand

Jan. 16, 2015 at 2:50 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn rose 1.8 per cent on Friday for its biggest daily gain in about two weeks, rebounding from a nearly two-month low on support from short covering and increasing export demand. Wheat and soybean futures were mixed in light volume, with bargain buying supporting some […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. scientists call 2014 Earth’s hottest year on record

Jan. 16, 2015 at 1:59 pm CST

Cape Canaveral | Reuters — Last year was Earth’s warmest on record, bolstering the argument that people are altering the planet’s climate by relentlessly burning fuels that belch greenhouse gases into the air, two major U.S. government agencies said Friday. Separate studies by the U.S. space agency NASA and the […]

By Irene Klotz