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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle finish mostly higher

May. 16, 2016 at 7:17 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Most Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts landed in positive territory on Monday, after investors bought deferred months and simultaneously sold June futures in a trading strategy known as bear spreading, traders said. June live cattle closed down 0.4 cent/lb. at 123.025 cents (all figures US$). […]

U.N. experts find glyphosate unlikely to cause cancer

May. 16, 2016 at 7:10 pm CDT

By Kate Kelland

Kubota to buy equipment maker Great Plains

May. 13, 2016 at 8:22 pm CDT

By Staff

Activists press Olive Garden on antibiotics, worker pay

May. 13, 2016 at 7:11 pm CDT

By Lisa Baertlein

Forecasters see rising likelihood of La Nina in 2016

May. 13, 2016 at 5:31 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat up on short-covering

May. 13, 2016 at 4:25 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and wheat futures rose on Friday to their highest levels in more than a week and gained against soybeans as traders took profits on inter-market spreads, analysts said. Soybeans also faced pressure from expectations that U.S. farmers will plant more soybeans than the U.S. […]

By Julie Ingwersen

France’s Senate suspends palm oil tax, delays neonic ban

May. 13, 2016 at 1:32 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — The French Senate on Thursday adopted a revised version of its biodiversity bill in which senators scrapped an additional tax on palm oil and delayed until 2020 a ban on pesticides blamed for harming bees. The decisions are not final as the two houses of the […]

By Reuters

Germany looks set to abstain in EU glyphosate vote

May. 12, 2016 at 6:22 pm CDT

Reuters — Germany looks set to abstain in a European Union vote next week on the continued use of glyphosate in weed killers because ministries run by different parties remain at odds over the chemical which some experts say could be carcinogenic. Glyphosate is used in many herbicides including Monsanto’s […]

By Reuters

U.S. lawmakers put pressure on EPA over glyphosate review

May. 12, 2016 at 5:57 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lawmakers have asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to explain why it published — and then withdrew — documents related to its review of glyphosate, the chemical in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The documents, which included a report that […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. grains: Soy falls on weak export data, planting expectations

May. 12, 2016 at 3:24 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybean futures fell on Thursday on disappointing weekly export data and expectations that U.S. farmers might increase soybean seedings this spring and plant less corn, analysts said. Corn and wheat futures closed higher. At the Chicago Board of Trade, July soybeans settled down 6-1/4 cents […]

By Julie Ingwersen