Insights and Stories on International

Rivals see local battles, not global war, with new beer giant

Oct. 15, 2015 at 5:31 pm CDT

Copenhagen/Brussels | Reuters — The prospect of a new competitor that produces one third of an entire industry’s output would normally terrify rival companies, but brewing is different. The very local nature of lagers and ales, and the fact that a price war is seen as unlikely, mean global market […]

Canada’s pulses seen too pricey for India

Oct. 15, 2015 at 4:58 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. grains: Corn at three-week low, soy sags on harvest pressure

Oct. 15, 2015 at 2:58 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Cash price caution undercuts CME live cattle

Oct. 15, 2015 at 2:53 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Pulses: Festivals, supply issues to keep India’s prices high

Oct. 15, 2015 at 2:19 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

Feed: Australian drought hurts grain production

Oct. 15, 2015 at 2:13 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Following are a few highlights in the Canadian and world feed grains markets on Thursday, Oct. 15. • CBOT corn futures were posting small losses at midday Thursday, with the December contract quoted at US$3.77 per bushel, as the advancing U.S. harvest and relatively favourable yield reports […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Global markets: Mine shutdowns, U.S. jobless claims

Oct. 15, 2015 at 2:08 pm CDT

CNS Canada — The following is a glance at news moving markets globally. BHP EXECUTIVE SAYS SHUTTING MINES WON’T AFFECT PRICES – An executive from BHP Billiton Ltd., a multinational mining, metals and petroleum company, said mines being shut down will not affect commodity prices-like copper-because the mines being shut […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Bayer expects to compensate grape growers over crop damage

Oct. 15, 2015 at 3:26 am CDT

Zurich | Reuters — Bayer expects to pay wine growers compensation starting early next year after vineyards in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and Switzerland reported 2015 crop damage possibly linked to one of the company’s fungicides. European grape growers reported deformed leaves and lower yields after using Bayer CropScience’s […]

By John Miller

India’s drought a bonanza for Canadian pulse growers

Oct. 14, 2015 at 7:58 pm CDT

Winnipeg/Mumbai | Reuters — Prices for Canadian pulses typically ease toward the end of the year but a recent dry spell in distant India, the world’s top producer and consumer, is driving them up. Back-to-back drought years for the first time in three decades has eroded India’s output of pulses […]

By rajendra-jadhav Rod Nickel

U.S. grains: Wheat falls on technical selling, rainy forecasts

Oct. 14, 2015 at 6:11 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soft red wheat futures fell two per cent on Wednesday on profit-taking coupled with forecasts for beneficial rains next week in parts of the southern Plains and the Black Sea region, analysts said. Corn fell in sympathy with wheat and amid U.S. harvest progress while […]

By Julie Ingwersen