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CBOT weekly outlook: Markets stabilize following USDA reports

Jan. 17, 2018 at 4:40 pm CST

CNS Canada — Corn and soybean contracts on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) are catching up following the release of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports last Friday. Corn “went down on Friday in response to the report. We couldn’t file through it all yesterday. So we actually ended […]

U.S. grains: Corn jumps in short-covering bounce

Jan. 17, 2018 at 3:38 pm CST

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: CME nearby hogs hit contract high

Jan. 16, 2018 at 6:41 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Wheat hits one-month low on supplies, acreage forecasts

Jan. 16, 2018 at 4:12 pm CST

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: Hogs turn up on short-covering, bargain buying

Jan. 12, 2018 at 6:58 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Wheat drops most since August after USDA acreage surprise

Jan. 12, 2018 at 4:01 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat futures tumbled nearly three per cent on Friday, notching their biggest daily decline since August, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed larger-than-expected U.S. winter wheat plantings. Corn futures fell to life-of-contract lows, while soybeans turned higher in a recovery from four-month lows in […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Rush on to reverse U.S. tax boon for ag co-ops

Jan. 12, 2018 at 2:30 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Republican U.S. senators are working with some of the world’s biggest agricultural merchants to undo a last-minute provision in the tax overhaul that threatens to distort the grains market and starve private firms of corn, soy and wheat supplies. It was included during final revisions of […]

By Tom Polansek

USDA raises corn harvest view

Jan. 12, 2018 at 11:09 am CST

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday boosted its estimate of domestic corn production due to a record yield that stemmed from bumper harvests in major growing states such as Illinois as well as some of the smaller production areas. USDA also trimmed its view of soybean […]

By Reuters

Food riots grip western Venezuela

Jan. 12, 2018 at 12:17 am CST

San Cristobal/Barinas, Venezuela | Reuters — Hungry mobs ransacked a food collection centre and a supermarket in Venezuela’s western Andean state of Merida on Thursday and reportedly even slaughtered cattle grazing in a field as unrest over food shortages spread through the country. An opposition lawmaker from Merida, Carlos Paparoni, […]

By Anggy Polanco Francisco Aguilar

U.S. livestock: Fund selloff, NAFTA concerns extend hog losses

Jan. 11, 2018 at 5:47 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs closed lower for a second straight day on Thursday, pressured by fund liquidation and jitters about NAFTA talks, said traders. On Wednesday, Mexico said it would withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) if the U.S. exits trade talks […]

By Theopolis Waters