Insights and Stories on International

Dreyfus, Cargill win Brazil port space

Dec. 9, 2015 at 2:24 pm CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Louis Dreyfus Commodities and Cargill won an auction on Wednesday to operate a grain terminal at Santos Port for 25 years, while Fibria SA and Marimex won rights to operate pulp areas there leased from Brazil’s government. The three port areas were the first of […]

Dow-DuPont talks driven by weak farm demand, investor pressure

Dec. 9, 2015 at 10:31 am CST

By Sneha Banerjee Swetha Gopinath

U.K. review calls for urgent cuts to antibiotic use in livestock

Dec. 8, 2015 at 8:02 pm CST

By Kate Kelland

Disease-resistant pigs latest win for gene editing technology

Dec. 8, 2015 at 7:43 pm CST

By ben-hirschler

CP revises offer for Norfolk Southern, rebuffed again

Dec. 8, 2015 at 4:45 pm CST

By Allison Lampert Euan Rocha

U.S. grains: Soybeans sink on liquidation ahead of USDA report

Dec. 8, 2015 at 4:18 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybeans extended losses on Tuesday to touch a one-week low on long liquidation and technical selling ahead of a monthly government supply and demand report, more than offsetting strong import demand from China. Corn ticked up, recovering slightly from Monday’s slide of more than two […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end mostly lower after rocky session

Dec. 8, 2015 at 4:09 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Most Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts landed in negative territory on Tuesday after an up-and-down day of trading stirred by short-covering and uncertainty about near-term cash prices, traders said. Spot December closed up 0.625 cent, to 122.25 cents/lb., February ended down 0.075 cent, to 127.075, […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Corn, soy drop from multi-week highs on profit-taking

Dec. 7, 2015 at 5:36 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell on Monday for the first time in six sessions and corn dropped after two sessions of gains on profit-taking and as traders took positions ahead of a government crop report due later this week. Wheat futures closed lower as earlier technical buying […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: COOL news weighs on CME live cattle, hogs

Dec. 7, 2015 at 5:23 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures fell on Monday, partly led by the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) ruling against the U.S. in a meat-labeling dispute, said traders. Canada and Mexico may impose tariffs worth $1 billion onto U.S.-traded products, a WTO panel ruled on Monday, as […]

By Theopolis Waters

Yara to buy Agrium fertilizer upgrading plant

Dec. 7, 2015 at 3:52 am CST

Canadian fertilizer firm Agrium has a buyer lined up for a U.S. nitrogen upgrading site it’s been looking to sell since April. Oslo-based fertilizer giant Yara said Thursday it’s made a deal to buy Agrium’s West Sacramento Nitrogen Operations plant for US$27 million (C$36 million) and use the facility instead […]

By Staff