Insights and Stories on International

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soybeans fall on good crop weather

Nov. 20, 2015 at 7:01 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures fell on Friday, pressured by improving crop conditions in the U.S. Plains and Midwest while corn and soybeans dropped on beneficial crop weather in South America, traders said. The burgeoning harvest prospects threatened to add to the already ample global […]

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle slide before USDA report

Nov. 20, 2015 at 6:52 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. feedlot cattle placements hit nearly 20-year low

Nov. 20, 2015 at 6:07 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

Stronger demand for minor feeds reflected in oats futures

Nov. 19, 2015 at 5:13 pm CST

By Jade Markus

U.S. grains: Wheat rallies 1.5 per cent

Nov. 19, 2015 at 4:53 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Lower beef quote undermines CME live cattle

Nov. 19, 2015 at 4:48 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle closed lower on Thursday after profit-taking and a drop in the day’s wholesale beef price ended a two-day rally, traders said. Spot December and February finished 1.075 cents/lb. lower at 129.9 and 132.05 cents, respectively (all figures US$). Thursday morning’s wholesale […]

By Theopolis Waters

Syngenta ready to play role in sector shake-up

Nov. 19, 2015 at 1:48 pm CST

Frankfurt | Reuters — Syngenta and other major seeds and crop chemicals companies are intensively discussing tie-ups, the Financial Times quoted the Swiss firm’s chairman as saying Wednesday, adding to a chorus of voices predicting a sector shake-up. Conversations among the leading players in the industry are “extremely active,” the […]

By Ludwig Burger

Australia blocks foreign firm’s deal for largest farm owner

Nov. 19, 2015 at 1:24 pm CST

Sydney | Reuters –– Australia on Thursday blocked the sale of the country’s largest landowner, private farming group S. Kidman and Co., to foreign investors, saying an agricultural area the size of South Korea should remain in Australian hands. Ownership of farmland is a sensitive political issue in Australia amid […]

By Colin Packham Lincoln Feast

New ‘superbug’ gene found in animals, people in China

Nov. 18, 2015 at 6:06 pm CST

London | Reuters — A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China — including in samples of bacteria with epidemic potential, researchers said Wednesday. The discovery was described as “alarming” by scientists, who called for […]

By Kate Kelland

U.S. grains: Soybeans, wheat close lower

Nov. 18, 2015 at 5:58 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell on Wednesday in a technical setback following two days of modest gains, traders said. Wheat futures also weakened as a bleak fundamental picture, highlighted by plentiful global stocks, cast a bearish tone across the agriculture sector. Corn was mixed, with some contracts […]

By Mark Weinraub