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U.S. forecaster sees La Nina likely in coming months

Oct. 14, 2016 at 3:31 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — A U.S. government forecaster on Thursday said the chance has increased for weather phenomenon La Nina developing in the coming months in the Northern Hemisphere fall and persist into winter 2016-17. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the National Weather Service, in a […]

Deere challenges U.S. federal block on Precision Planting bid

Oct. 14, 2016 at 2:58 pm CDT

By Meredith Davis

CETA hits resistance in Belgian fortress Wallonia

Oct. 14, 2016 at 1:50 pm CDT

By philip-blenkinsop

CME mulls cash settlement for volatile cattle market

Oct. 13, 2016 at 6:50 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

German court rejects bid to block Canada-EU trade deal

Oct. 13, 2016 at 6:39 pm CDT

By Caroline Copley David Ljunggren

U.S. grains: Wheat futures soar on short-covering

Oct. 13, 2016 at 6:15 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures jumped about five per cent on Thursday as a flurry of export deals prompted funds to cover short positions, analysts said. Corn futures rose on short-covering and firm cash markets despite the ongoing U.S. harvest, while soybeans followed the higher trend. At the […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Cattle plumb new lows on technical selloff

Oct. 13, 2016 at 6:02 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures tumbled two per cent on Thursday, extending losses to six-year lows on pressure from technical selling and weak prices in cash cattle markets, traders said. Lean hog futures added to recent gains at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, boosted by technical buying and as […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. biodiesel executives plead guilty over fraud scheme

Oct. 12, 2016 at 10:28 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — Two men pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on Wednesday to conspiracy, fraud and making false statements related to the U.S. government’s controversial policy designed to boost use of renewable fuels, according to court documents. The case comes in the last four weeks of a […]

By Reuters

Millions of chickens reported dead in Hurricane Matthew floods

Oct. 12, 2016 at 8:09 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Flooding from Hurricane Matthew has killed up to five million poultry birds in North Carolina, most of them chickens, the state’s top environmental official said Wednesday. Donald van der Vaart, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, also told Reuters that some pits that […]

By Tom Polansek

Deere to license Precision Planting wares to Ag Leader

Oct. 12, 2016 at 7:56 pm CDT

Iowa precision ag equipment maker Ag Leader will be able to make and sell high-speed planting equipment using certain systems from Precison Planting — when, or if, Deere and Co. seals its deal to buy the latter company. Deere and Ag Leader announced Wednesday they will have a licensing agreement in […]

By Staff