Insights and Stories on International

USDA analyzing effects of wild pigs on crops, livestock

Sep. 25, 2015 at 6:22 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said Friday it has started analyzing for the first time data it has collected on the impact that wild pigs have on U.S. farmers’ crop and livestock operations. It is estimated by federal and state agricultural officials that there are […]

U.S. grains: Soy, corn, wheat rally to close week

Sep. 25, 2015 at 5:45 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Bargain hunters send CME live cattle, feeders limit up

Sep. 25, 2015 at 5:41 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: CBOT wheat slides from one-month high

Sep. 24, 2015 at 4:44 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle again sink to two-year bottom

Sep. 24, 2015 at 4:33 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. hosts meeting in bid to wrap up Pacific trade pact

Sep. 24, 2015 at 3:20 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — The United States has called ministers from the 12 nations negotiating a Pacific trade deal for a meeting Sept. 30 to Oct. 1 in a bid to finish the pact, a key part of the U.S. administration’s engagement with Asia. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) seeks to […]

Russian government proposes cutting wheat export tax

Sep. 24, 2015 at 3:05 pm CDT

Semikarakorsk, Russia | Reuters — The Russian government has proposed cutting its floating wheat export tax from Oct. 1 and to exempt durum wheat from the levy, a senior official said on Thursday. Russian wheat exports have been constrained by the tax, which has prevented exporters from fully benefitting from […]

By darya-korsunskaya

Argentina halts Europe-bound rice ‘impregnated with cocaine’

Sep. 24, 2015 at 2:45 pm CDT

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentine customs agents found about 30 kg of cocaine hidden in a way they had never seen before when drug-sniffing dogs found the drug had been absorbed into grains of rice headed for Europe via Africa, an official said on Wednesday. The bust underscores the […]

By Hugh Bronstein

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soybeans feeling harvest pressure

Sep. 23, 2015 at 5:59 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) corn and soybean futures finished lower for the week ended Wednesday as the advancing harvest pressured already-low prices. The front-month soybean contract dropped to some of its lowest levels in more than six years. The rising strength of the U.S. dollar has made […]

By Dave Sims

U.S. grains: Wheat nears one-month high on global weather worries

Sep. 23, 2015 at 5:41 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures neared a one-month high on Wednesday on short-covering and poor weather in Australia and the Black Sea region that worried traders who have recently been focused on large global supplies. Corn and soybean futures ended little changed. Propelling wheat prices higher was dry […]

By Tom Polansek