Insights and Stories on International

U.S. livestock: CME live, feeder cattle extend rally

Dec. 21, 2015 at 5:29 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Monday ended sharply higher, with the February contract up the expanded 4.5-cent/lb. price limit, on more short-covering following Friday’s bullish government cattle report, traders said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cattle on Feed report on Friday showed the number […]

Mexico halts bid for COOL retaliation

Dec. 20, 2015 at 1:27 am CST

By Reuters

WTO backs agricultural reforms, split on Doha

Dec. 20, 2015 at 1:10 am CST

By Edith Honan

Philippines to challenge court-ordered GMO import ban

Dec. 19, 2015 at 3:33 pm CST

By Enrico Dela Cruz Manolo Serapio Jr.

Russia, China sign accords on grain quality control

Dec. 18, 2015 at 9:25 pm CST

By Olesya Astakhova Polina Devitt

ChemChina to sweeten bid for Syngenta to $44B

Dec. 18, 2015 at 8:54 pm CST

Reuters — State-owned China National Chemical Corp. has raised its offer to buy Syngenta by about $2 billion, to US$44 billion, proposing a two-stage takeover of the agrochemical company, Bloomberg reported, citing sources. ChemChina has offered 470 Swiss francs (C$661) per share to buy 70 per cent of Syngenta with […]

By Reuters

U.S. Nov. feedlot cattle placements slump to record low

Dec. 18, 2015 at 8:48 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Cattle movement into U.S. feedlots in November fell 11 per cent from a year ago to their lowest level since the government began compiling the data in 1996, a U.S. Department of Agriculture report showed on Friday. Analysts attributed last month’s much smaller-than-expected placements to deteriorating […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Soybeans rally on Brazil dryness, short-covering

Dec. 18, 2015 at 6:59 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures climbed to a near two-week high on Friday on technical buying and short-covering as well as concerns that dry weather in parts of Brazil may drag down yields in the world’s top exporter of the oilseed. Wheat and corn pared steep early gains […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle rally limit-up before report

Dec. 18, 2015 at 6:06 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures settled up by their three-cent/lb. price limit Friday, driven by short-covering and technical buying, traders said. Investors tweaked positions ahead of Friday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture monthly Cattle on Feed report at 2 p.m. CT. Spot December ended at 120.15 […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. Congress repeals COOL on beef, pork

Dec. 18, 2015 at 4:06 pm CST

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have both approved a repeal of the government’s six-year old mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) laws on beef and pork. Tucked into an omnibus appropriations bill put before Congress Friday, the repeal shuts the door on a major irritant in North American trade relations […]

By Dave Bedard