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U.S. grains: Soy ends firm, rebounding from last week’s multi-month lows

Sep. 6, 2016 at 6:09 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose on Tuesday on reminders of fresh export demand, extending a modest rebound from multi-month lows set last week, traders said. Wheat futures drifted lower after a long U.S. holiday weekend while corn ended steady to slightly higher, with the benchmark December corn […]

U.S. livestock: Live cattle losses deepen on supply woes, weak beef prices

Sep. 6, 2016 at 5:57 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

ChemChina extends tender offers for Syngenta

Sep. 6, 2016 at 1:20 pm CDT

By Reuters

Smithfield says Illinois hog plant shut down after fire

Sep. 6, 2016 at 1:13 pm CDT

By Reuters

Health ministry decision makes zero ergot Egypt’s new normal

Sep. 6, 2016 at 12:43 pm CDT

By Eric Knecht maha-el-dahan

JBS CEO ordered to step aside in Brazil pension fund probe

Sep. 6, 2016 at 7:37 am CDT

Brasilia | Reuters — Brazilian police launched an investigation of fraud at state-run companies’ pension funds on Monday, as a judge ordered dozens of senior financiers and executives away from their firms, including the CEO of the world’s biggest beef exporter. Police carried out five arrests, more than two dozen […]

By Cesar Raizer

Bayer sweetens Monsanto bid as talks enter final stretch

Sep. 6, 2016 at 1:50 am CDT

Reuters — German pharmaceutical and crops manufacturer Bayer said on Monday that its negotiations with Monsanto had advanced, and that it was now willing to offer more than US$65 billion to acquire the world’s largest seeds company. Bayer’s announcement came as the gap in price expectations between the two companies […]

By greg-roumeliotis Ludwig Burger

Austria drops talk of ‘conflict’ over EU-Canada trade deal

Sep. 2, 2016 at 7:22 pm CDT

Vienna | Reuters — Austria toned down its opposition to a free trade deal between the European Union and Canada on Friday, two days after social democrat Chancellor Christian Kern had vowed to start a “conflict” over the agreement. While the so-called CETA accord is all but sealed, the Austrian […]

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Live cattle tumble to five-year lows on beef declines

Sep. 2, 2016 at 6:51 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures fell to five-year lows on Friday, capping their worst weekly performance so far of 2016 in a technical selloff linked to bigger cattle supplies and lower wholesale beef prices, traders said. Lean hogs also tumbled, declining by as much as 4.8 per […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. grains: Wheat rises for a second day on short-covering

Sep. 2, 2016 at 7:01 am CDT

Singapore/Paris | Reuters, 7:01 a.m. CT –– Chicago wheat futures prices rose for a second session on Friday with short-covering ahead of the Labour Day holiday weekend supporting prices, although the trend was set for a second week of declines amid plentiful world supplies. Corn was up for a second […]

By Naveen Thukral Sybille De La Hamaide