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U.S. livestock: Cattle limit up on technical buying

Jan. 10, 2017 at 4:19 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures climbed to a nine-month high on Tuesday, extending gains from the previous session on chart-based and investment fund buying, traders and analysts said. Feeder cattle and lean hog futures also rose at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with feeders reaching the highest levels […]

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn weak as traders await USDA report

Jan. 10, 2017 at 3:13 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

Cargill profit jumps on meat demand, big U.S. crops

Jan. 10, 2017 at 2:49 pm CST

By Karl Plume

Syngenta, ChemChina submit remedy proposals to EU

Jan. 10, 2017 at 4:30 am CST

By Chen Aizhu Michelle Price

Mars to buy animal hospital chain

Jan. 10, 2017 at 3:07 am CST

By Staff

Animal pharma firm Merial formally joins Boehringer

Jan. 9, 2017 at 9:19 pm CST

Global pharma giants Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim have formally sealed their deal to merge Sanofi’s global animal health business, Merial, into Boehringer’s. The two companies last week announced their deal has “successfully closed in most markets” as of Jan. 1. Paris-based Sanofi will get Boehringer’s global consumer health care business […]

By Staff

U.S. livestock: Cattle gain on bargain-buying

Jan. 9, 2017 at 5:16 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures gained about one per cent on Monday, rebounding from earlier losses on support from a round of bargain buying, traders and analysts said. Feeders fell to a 3-1/2-week low before reversing higher, while live cattle tested Friday’s multiweek […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn, wheat rise

Jan. 9, 2017 at 5:05 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures firmed on Monday, settling up one per cent on some concerns about rain in parts of Argentina curtailing crop production from the world’s third largest exporter of the oilseed, traders said. Wheat futures also closed higher, with prices firming to their highest since […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures mostly firmer

Jan. 6, 2017 at 6:16 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Most Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts gained modestly on Friday after some investors sold February futures and bought deferred months prior to similar moves next week, said traders. Monday begins the first of five days in which funds that track the Standard + Poor’s Goldman […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Exports pressure corn, soybeans

Jan. 6, 2017 at 2:52 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybean futures fell on Friday on signs of weakening demand for U.S. exports as the South American harvest nears, traders said. Wheat futures also dropped, pressured by a round of profit-taking after K.C. hard red winter wheat hit a 4-1/2-month […]

By Mark Weinraub