Insights and Stories on International

Danone sales rise as dairy product demand revives

Apr. 19, 2016 at 7:02 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — Danone on Tuesday reported stronger than expected first-quarter sales and said it was on track to deliver higher sales and profits this year despite challenging conditions in Brazil and Russia. The world’s largest yogurt maker, whose brands include Actimel and Activia, reported a 3.5 per cent […]

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy jump to multi-month highs on fund buying

Apr. 19, 2016 at 5:11 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle close lower, hogs higher

Apr. 19, 2016 at 3:40 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

World wine trade buoyed by rebound in China demand

Apr. 18, 2016 at 6:31 pm CDT

By Reuters

Costco plans chicken plant in Nebraska

Apr. 18, 2016 at 6:03 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer Nathan Layne

U.S. livestock: Fund selling drops CME live cattle limit down

Apr. 18, 2016 at 5:15 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed sharply lower on Monday, with nearby contracts down by their three-cent-pr-pound daily price limit, shaken by sell stops and fund liquidation, traders said. April and June live cattle ended down by the three-cent limit at 128.475 and 119.175 cents/lb., […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Wheat surges over three per cent

Apr. 18, 2016 at 5:02 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade surged more than three per cent on Monday, notching their biggest daily gains since October as investors liquidated a portion of the record-large short stake, traders said. Corn and soybean futures each rose to fresh multi-month highs, before […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Scientists take sides: Who’s right about glyphosate?

Apr. 18, 2016 at 11:06 am CDT

London | Reuters — The latest dispute to blow up around the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concerns glyphosate, an ingredient in one of the world’s most widely-used herbicides, Roundup, made by Monsanto. In March 2015, an IARC monograph concluded that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic.” Yet seven months […]

By Kate Kelland

Olam forms joint venture with Mitsubishi

Apr. 18, 2016 at 9:05 am CDT

Singapore | Reuters –– Olam International has formed a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corp. to supply sustainable agricultural and food products to Japan, in the first tie-up between the two since the Japanese firm bought a stake in the commodity trader. The joint venture, MC Agri Alliance Ltd., will import […]

By Reuters

Doomsday Vault keepers move to lock up more funding

Apr. 17, 2016 at 1:25 am CDT

Oslo | Reuters — The Crop Trust, which runs a so-called doomsday seed vault in the Arctic, secured a doubling of its core funds on Friday and urged the private sector to do more to safeguard commercial food production. Friday’s pledges totalling about $150 million were mainly from governments, including […]

By alister-doyle