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Major investment to build Farmers Edge’s data power

Jan. 27, 2016 at 5:20 pm CST

Canadian precision agronomy and farm data management firm Farmers Edge plans to keep taking its services to previously underserved acres around the world, with a major cash infusion from a group of its backers. Japanese commodities trading and investment firm Mitsui, Toronto commercial real estate company Osmington and the Green […]

U.S. livestock: Cash price optimism lifts CME live cattle

Jan. 27, 2016 at 3:02 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

FBI sets up checkpoints around Oregon refuge after deadly confrontation

Jan. 27, 2016 at 9:18 am CST

By Peter Henderson

Egypt’s ergot saga leaves wheat traders in limbo

Jan. 27, 2016 at 2:34 am CST

By Eric Knecht maha-el-dahan

Russia said considering export duties for corn, barley

Jan. 27, 2016 at 2:02 am CST

By Reuters

DuPont CEO sees little to concern regulators in Dow merger

Jan. 27, 2016 at 1:46 am CST

Reuters — DuPont CEO Edward Breen said on Tuesday that antitrust regulators were likely to show “very little” concern about the company’s pending merger with Dow Chemical and were not expected to seek significant asset sales. Dupont and Dow plan to form a giant chemical and seed producer that would […]

By Swetha Gopinath

Brazil prosecutors charge JBS board chairman

Jan. 27, 2016 at 1:11 am CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Prosecutors charged Joesley Batista, chairman of Brazilian meatpacker JBS’s board and president of its controlling shareholder J+F Investimentos, and eight others with crimes against the financial system, sending shares of JBS SA down more than eight per cent on Tuesday. The statement from prosecutors said […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat rises to one-month high on technicals

Jan. 26, 2016 at 4:53 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Board of Trade wheat prices climbed to a one-month high Tuesday on chart-based buying and fund short-covering as the market digested news that Russia might limit grain exports, traders said. U.S. soybean futures retreated and corn closed lower after a volatile session. At the CBOT, […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Equities upswing pulls CME live cattle higher

Jan. 26, 2016 at 3:37 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures finished higher on Tuesday, with strength from the U.S. stock market rally that was partly fueled by the rebound in crude oil prices, traders said. February live cattle closed up 1.6 cents/lb. to 133.025 cents, and April ended 1.175 cents […]

By Theopolis Waters

Local planning faulted in Texas fertilizer site explosion

Jan. 25, 2016 at 6:21 pm CST

Reuters — An explosion at a Texas fertilizer storage facility in 2013 that killed 15 people likely happened because the owner of the site kept combustible material near a 30-ton pile of ammonium nitrate, according to a report released by the federal Chemical Safety Board on Monday. The April 17, […]

By M.B. Pell