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U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs snap back from session lows

Mar. 23, 2017 at 3:36 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures finished higher on Thursday, after short-covering and bargain buying brought contracts from morning lows, traders said. “Hogs (futures) were simply too cheap. The price had gotten to the point where (investors) had wrung out any sort of spring seasonal rally,” […]

EU regulators said set to clear Dow, Syngenta deals next week

Mar. 23, 2017 at 3:25 pm CDT

By Foo Yun Chee

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn await USDA reports

Mar. 22, 2017 at 7:00 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. livestock: Live cattle hit 14-month high on cash gains

Mar. 22, 2017 at 6:52 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

Brazil fears lost market share for meat industry

Mar. 22, 2017 at 3:37 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Crop prospects drag on soybeans

Mar. 22, 2017 at 3:27 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures weakened on Wednesday, with prospects for bumper harvests in South America and record U.S. plantings weighing on the beaten-down market, traders said. Corn and wheat futures also closed in negative territory. Both grains have fallen for three days in a row. The outlook […]

By Mark Weinraub

Brazil ag ministry, police say meat problems not widespread

Mar. 21, 2017 at 7:08 pm CDT

Lapa, Brazil | Reuters — Brazil’s federal police and agriculture ministry said late Tuesday that sanitary and corruption problems found in the nation’s meatpacking industry were isolated incidents, an attempt to tamp down a scandal that has led the Latin American nation’s biggest export markets to ban its meats. Since […]

By Stephen Eisenhammer

Lactalis short of threshold to delist Parmalat

Mar. 21, 2017 at 4:33 pm CDT

Milan | Reuters — France’s Lactalis failed to reach the 90 per cent stake in Parmalat it required to proceed to delist the Italian food company in the last day of a buyout offer, a filing by the Milan bourse showed Tuesday. Lactalis, the world’s largest dairy firm, bought 15.11 […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn fall to multi-week lows

Mar. 21, 2017 at 4:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures dropped to their lowest level in more than six weeks on Tuesday, their second straight day of declines, as weather forecasts bolstered expectations for strong yields adding to already-abundant supplies in the coming weeks, traders said. Corn futures also fell, hitting their lowest […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Live cattle hit two-month high on cash optimism

Mar. 21, 2017 at 4:06 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures rose to two-month highs on Tuesday as wholesale beef prices extended gains, stoking optimism for higher prices this week in Plains cash cattle markets, traders and analysts said. Feeder cattle futures also were higher, while lean hogs fell for the […]

By Michael Hirtzer