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CBOT weekly outlook: Soybeans facing bearish headwinds

Mar. 8, 2017 at 4:13 pm CST

CNS Canada — All eyes in the agricultural commodity world are focused on the release of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s next World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report due out Thursday. However, unless there’s a major surprise contained within the report, it’s hard to see the bias pointed higher […]

U.S. Commerce chief sees no major NAFTA talks until later this year

Mar. 8, 2017 at 3:53 pm CST

By David Lawder

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soybeans fall on plentiful supplies

Mar. 8, 2017 at 3:31 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

Greek farmers clash with police in Athens during reforms protest

Mar. 8, 2017 at 3:25 am CST

By Reuters

Egyptians protest over fears of bread subsidy cuts

Mar. 7, 2017 at 4:53 pm CST

By Ahmed Abd Elkawey Haitham El Sheikh

U.S. grains: Soy, corn fall on Brazil crop expectations

Mar. 7, 2017 at 2:11 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures dropped 1.1 per cent on Tuesday to their lowest in more than a week on rising expectations for a Brazil harvest already forecast to be a record, traders said. Outlooks for a bountiful South American harvest also weighed on corn futures, while wheat […]

By Mark Weinraub

Low-path bird flu turns up in Wisconsin turkeys

Mar. 7, 2017 at 1:02 pm CST

Paris | Reuters — The U.S. has reported an outbreak of avian flu on a farm in Wisconsin, the second in the country in less than a week although the virus found this time is considered less virulent, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday. A strain […]

By Reuters

ChemChina says Syngenta deal filing accepted by Beijing

Mar. 6, 2017 at 8:03 pm CST

Beijing | Reuters –– ChemChina said Monday that Beijing had accepted its application for regulatory approval of its US$43 billion takeover of Syngenta last month. Earlier Gao Hucheng, who retired as commerce minister less than two weeks ago, said the government had not received a formal filing for China’s largest […]

By Chen Aizhu

White House still weighing U.S. biofuels program change

Mar. 6, 2017 at 7:54 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — The Trump administration is reviewing the possibility of a key change to U.S. biofuels policy requested by oil refiners and Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor and special advisor on regulations to President Donald Trump, a White House official said Monday. The administration has no position “either […]

By emily-stephenson

U.S. livestock: Live cattle sink on technical selling

Mar. 6, 2017 at 4:38 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures eased on Monday on profit-taking and technical selling, although losses were limited by firm wholesale beef prices and the discount of futures to cash prices, traders said. April live cattle closed down 0.425 cent/lb. to 115.55 cents, slipping below the […]

By Karl Plume