Insights and Stories on International

Nov. 12, 2014 at 6:49 pm CST

Reuters — Australian farmers are holding back wheat crop sales as dryness in parts of the country’s eastern grain belt cuts yields, raising the likelihood for a boost to global prices that have dropped 13 per cent this year. Farmers in the world’s fourth biggest wheat exporter have sold only […]

By Naveen Thukral

Nov. 12, 2014 at 4:23 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Board of Trade soybean prices fell on Wednesday, retreating from multi-month highs on profit-taking, farmer selling and rumours of South American soymeal cargoes being shipped to the U.S., traders said. Wheat prices rose on concerns that a cold spell in the U.S. Plains and Midwest […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Nov. 12, 2014 at 4:17 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed higher on Wednesday following a snapback in wholesale beef prices, traders said. December closed up 0.5 cent per pound at 167.75 cents, and February 1.175 cents higher at 169.575 cents (all figures US$). The morning’s choice wholesale beef price […]

By Theopolis Waters

Nov. 11, 2014 at 7:24 pm CST

Reuters — Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, and its brethren of global biotech crop developers are spreading the word that as far as the safety of their genetically modified grain goes, the science is solidly on their side. The message of “settled” science has become the rallying cry for […]

By Carey Gillam

Nov. 11, 2014 at 7:11 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — A cold spell arriving in the U.S. Midwest this week will probably stall the emergence and growth of late-seeded soft red winter wheat, a meteorologist said Tuesday. Temperatures are expected to fall to 15 to 20 F (-9 to -7 C) this week in Missouri and […]