Insights and Stories on International

Europe’s fear of U.S. hormones, GMOs sows divide in trade talks

Mar. 12, 2014 at 4:02 pm CDT

Brussels | Reuters — Europe’s reluctance to buy hormone meat or genetically modified (GM) food from the U.S. has exposed an “enormous gulf” that threatens the world’s biggest trade pact, industry and labour groups told EU and U.S. negotiators Wednesday. Eight months into talks to create a transatlantic pact encompassing […]

Chicago soybeans breaking lower, Chinese ports full

Mar. 12, 2014 at 3:45 pm CDT

By Terryn Shiells

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall on demand woes but wheat, corn strong

Mar. 12, 2014 at 2:52 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Persistence key for market access to China, Vilsack says

Mar. 11, 2014 at 4:34 pm CDT

By Lisa Guenther

U.S. livestock: CME hogs peak at new high in volatile action

Mar. 11, 2014 at 4:03 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat surges 2.9 per cent, corn follows

Mar. 11, 2014 at 3:43 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. wheat futures rallied 2.9 per cent to their highest level in more than four months on Tuesday, supported by concerns that political unrest in Ukraine will disrupt exports and worries about dry soils limiting U.S. production, traders said. Some technical buying — the benchmark Chicago […]

By Mark Weinraub

Farm groups hail field-levelling trade deal with Korea

Mar. 11, 2014 at 1:32 pm CDT

Negotiations are officially completed and terms finalized on a free trade agreement between Canada and South Korea, with a long line of enthusiastic Canadian farm export sectors in their wake. A trade pact between the two countries has been in the works since they agreed to formal talks in 2005, […]

By Staff

Canada, S. Korea close to free trade deal, Harper says

Mar. 10, 2014 at 10:05 pm CDT

Toronto | Reuters — Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Sunday he hopes to finalize a free trade agreement with South Korea during a trip there this week. Sources familiar with the negotiations had said last week that the two sides were very close to signing a long-delayed free trade […]

U.S. livestock: Pig virus, supply fears lift CME hogs to new highs

Mar. 10, 2014 at 8:42 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures marked a new high on Monday, with some trading months up by their three-cent price limit, led by record-high wholesale pork prices in anticipation of tight supplies pegged to the deadly U.S. pig virus, traders and analysts said. Analysts estimated that […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Soy drops on bigger-than-expected stocks

Mar. 10, 2014 at 4:16 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures dropped Monday after the U.S. Agriculture Department made smaller-than-expected cuts to domestic stockpile and South American crop production forecasts, traders said. Corn futures also sagged, dropping 2.2 per cent from the six-month high hit last week, after USDA raised the global supply view. […]

By Mark Weinraub