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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle rally for fourth straight session

Dec. 23, 2015 at 6:01 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures climbed for a fourth consecutive session on Wednesday, with December up the three-cent/lb. price limit, as the southern Plains braces for a weekend winter storm that drove cash and wholesale beef prices higher, traders said. Spot December settled limit up […]

U.S. meat cases awash with Christmas hams at bargain

Dec. 23, 2015 at 1:26 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

Noble exits ag markets with unit sale to China’s COFCO

Dec. 23, 2015 at 2:25 am CST

By Reuters

Syngenta said talking to Monsanto, ChemChina, others

Dec. 22, 2015 at 5:24 pm CST

By Reuters

Nestle to switch to cage-free eggs in U.S. by 2020

Dec. 22, 2015 at 5:13 pm CST

By Anjali Athavaley

U.S. grains: Prices fall on technical selling, abundant supplies

Dec. 22, 2015 at 3:03 pm CST

Reuters — U.S. grain and soybean prices fell on Tuesday, weighed by technical selling and abundant global supplies. Soybeans and wheat gave up earlier gains that were based on weather concerns for developing crops, while corn led the way down in choppy trading ahead of Friday’s Christmas holiday. “There’s no […]

By Michael Hirtzer Rod Nickel

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle surge with cash prices

Dec. 22, 2015 at 2:57 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed higher on Tuesday, following stronger-than-expected cash prices as wintry weather takes aim at the southern U.S. Plains, traders said. Spot December ended 2.2 cents/lb. higher at 125.6 cents, and February was 1.775 cents higher at 131.8 cents (all figures […]

By Theopolis Waters

Canada, Mexico granted COOL retaliation power

Dec. 21, 2015 at 9:01 pm CST

Canada and Mexico may now impose retaliatory tariffs against U.S. goods at will over Washington’s country-of-origin labelling (COOL) rules — just in time for the process of erasing those rules to begin. U.S. President Barack Obama late Friday signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016, an omnibus bill approving funding […]

By Staff

Wild bees seen dwindling in main U.S. crop regions

Dec. 21, 2015 at 7:37 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — Wild bees, crucial pollinators for many crops, are on the decline in some of the main agricultural regions of the U.S., according to scientists who produced the first national map of bee populations and identified numerous trouble spots. The researchers on Monday cited 139 counties as […]

By Will Dunham

Russian ministry proposes reducing wheat export tax

Dec. 21, 2015 at 6:25 pm CST

Moscow | Reuters — Russia’s agriculture ministry has proposed that the government reduce or cancel its wheat export tax due to rouble volatility and a decline in global wheat benchmarks, the Interfax news agency reported, citing first deputy minister Evgenii Gromyko. The rouble has lost about six per cent against […]

By Reuters