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U.S. Treasury releases guidance on clean fuels tax credits

Jan. 10, 2025 at 4:10 pm CST

The United States Department of the Treasury together with the Internal Revenue Service released much-anticipated short-term guidance on tax credits for biofuels on Jan. 10, giving the soyoil market a boost to end the week.

An inspector looking at sides of beef, which are hanging in a cooler.

U.S. livestock: Cattle add to gains; exports up year-over-year in November

Jan. 10, 2025 at 3:12 pm CST

By Geralyn Wichers

Cuts to U.S. soybean, corn production

Jan. 10, 2025 at 3:12 pm CST

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

A tugboat passes shipping containers being unloaded and stacked on a pier at Port Newark, New Jersey, U.S., November 19, 2021.

Tentative labour deal heads off US port disruption; Trump credited

Jan. 10, 2025 at 9:46 am CST

By Daniel Wiessner Lisa Baertlein Reuters

Germany confirms first case of foot-and-mouth disease in nearly 40 years

Jan. 10, 2025 at 9:40 am CST

By Reuters

Exterior of the Chicago Board of Trade building.

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn rise as traders position ahead of USDA report

Jan. 9, 2025 at 3:45 pm CST

Chicago soybean and corn futures ticked up on Thursday as traders squared positions ahead of a major U.S. Department of Agriculture supply-and-demand report due on Friday.

By Renee Hickman Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures take back losses to hit fresh highs

Jan. 9, 2025 at 3:41 pm CST

Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures hit fresh highs on Thursday after Wednesday’s technical reversal.

By Geralyn Wichers

Second spring wheat futures market on the horizon

Jan. 9, 2025 at 1:56 pm CST

The CME Group has plans to launch a new Hard Red Spring Wheat futures and options market in the second quarter of 2025, rivalling the Minneapolis hard red spring wheat contracts now traded through the MIAX platform.

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

China accelerates efforts to boost crop yields, ensure food security

Jan. 9, 2025 at 10:53 am CST

China will accelerate the breeding of new soybean and corn varieties and prioritize yield improvements for key grains and oil crops, as part of broad efforts to ensure food security, the agriculture ministry said in a statement late on Wednesday.

By Reuters

Idemitsu to begin trial of non-edible oilseed crop for aviation fuel

Jan. 9, 2025 at 10:49 am CST

Idemitsu Kosan will begin a trial plantation of the non-edible oilseed tree crop Pongamia in Australia from mid-January to assess its potential as a feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), the Japanese crude oil refiner said on Thursday.

By Reuters