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Brazil soy farmers start planting expected record crop

Sep. 24, 2014 at 5:12 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Farmers in Brazil have started planting what may be their third consecutive record soybean crop though progress has been uneven in South America’s largest economy, analysts for two state-level farm institutes said Wednesday. Parana, Brazil’s No. 2 soy growing state, in southern Brazil has planted […]

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans, wheat bounce from four-year lows

Sep. 24, 2014 at 3:58 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: Cash price uncertainty weakens CME hogs

Sep. 24, 2014 at 3:39 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Big crops keep pressure on CBOT soybeans, corn

Sep. 24, 2014 at 3:20 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Canadian fertilizer firms brace for fall in U.S. crop prices

Sep. 24, 2014 at 2:27 pm CDT

By Rod Nickel

CME says no current plans to introduce VSR in corn futures

Sep. 24, 2014 at 2:02 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — CME Group, owner of the Chicago Board of Trade grain exchange, said on Wednesday it had no immediate plans to introduce its controversial variable storage rate (VSR) scheme in its CBOT corn futures, the world pricing benchmark for the biggest and most valuable feed grain. “We […]

By Christine Stebbins

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle, hogs end mixed after choppy session

Sep. 23, 2014 at 4:22 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle closed narrowly mixed on Tuesday after a volatile session, pressured by lower wholesale beef values but supported by futures’ discount to last week’s cash prices, traders said. October live cattle finished down 0.05 cent per pound at 155.45 cents, and December […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans sink to four-year lows as harvest advances

Sep. 23, 2014 at 4:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures fell to four-year lows on Tuesday as mild and mostly dry weather across the U.S. Midwest is expected to boost the harvest of record crops. Wheat fell in tandem with retreating corn and soy, anchored by plentiful global supplies and strong […]

By Karl Plume

Yara, CF in talks to create $27.5B global fertilizer producer

Sep. 23, 2014 at 1:44 pm CDT

Oslo | Reuters — Norway’s Yara and Chicago-based CF Industries are in talks about a merger of equals that would create a US$27.5 billion global fertilizer producer to rival world No. 1 PotashCorp in an oversupplied and fragmented market. The deal would give Yara, the world’s biggest nitrate fertiliser maker, […]

By Balazs Koranyi Joachim Dagenborg

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn tumble to four-year lows on record harvests

Sep. 22, 2014 at 5:51 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn and soy futures fell to four-year lows on Monday, pressured by favourable weather for record harvests in the U.S. and a rising dollar that made the supplies less competitive in global markets. Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures also fell to a four-year low, […]

By Michael Hirtzer