Insights and Stories on International

U.S. livestock: CME hogs settle mostly lower before USDA report

Sep. 28, 2017 at 5:12 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Most Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog contracts closed lower on Thursday, pressured by profit-taking ahead of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s quarterly hog report at 2 p.m. CT. “The industry will no doubt show herd expansion and record-large production, it’s just a question of how much,” […]

ADM, Cargill still pursue Syngenta over corn rejections

Sep. 28, 2017 at 2:15 am CDT

By Karl Plume

Strong beef demand lifts Cargill profit for quarter

Sep. 27, 2017 at 8:56 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

CBOT weekly outlook: Harvest pressure to weigh on soy, corn

Sep. 27, 2017 at 7:00 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Wheat rises to one-month top on technical buying

Sep. 27, 2017 at 5:27 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Short-covering pulls up CME live cattle

Sep. 27, 2017 at 5:20 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Wednesday reversed some of their recent losses, with strength from technical buying and investors who covered previously held short positions, said traders. “Anyone who was short the market took a little money in profits,” said Oak Investment Group president […]

By Theopolis Waters

Bunge leaves door open to selling itself

Sep. 27, 2017 at 3:48 pm CDT

Reuters — Bunge Ltd. kept the door open on Wednesday to a sale of the company as it reported a 34 per cent drop in quarterly earnings and cut its full-year outlook, but its chief executive officer predicted a grains market rebound that would reverse the slide. CEO Soren Schroder […]

By Karl Plume

Several U.S. scientists to skip Monsanto’s dicamba summit

Sep. 26, 2017 at 6:43 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Monsanto invited dozens of weed scientists to a summit this week to win backing for a controversial herbicide but many have declined, threatening the company’s efforts to convince regulators the product is safe to use. Monsanto faces a barrage of lawsuits over its dicamba herbicide and […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Soy down on harvest, worries about biodiesel

Sep. 26, 2017 at 4:43 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell to a one-week low on Tuesday on technical selling combined with better-than-expected yield reports from the Midwest, analysts said. Wheat and corn futures followed the weak trend, with wheat retreating after climbing to a one-month high. Chicago Board of Trade November soybeans […]

By Julie Ingwersen

China delays deadline for implementing food import rules

Sep. 26, 2017 at 3:21 pm CDT

Beijing | Reuters — China plans to delay a deadline for implementing new food import regulations by two years until October 2019, a senior EU official said on Tuesday, following a lobbying effort by Europe and the U.S. amid concerns about disruption to trade. The extension comes just days before […]

By Dominique Patton