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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle sag, but off session lows

Jul. 9, 2015 at 5:29 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures posted losses on Thursday, hit by slumping wholesale beef demand and initial technical selling, traders said. But, short-covering and hopes of steady-to-better cash prices than last week for unsold cattle freed contracts from morning lows, they said. August closed down […]

Study of bumblebee decline points to climate ‘vise’

Jul. 9, 2015 at 3:04 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

U.S. forecaster sees El Nino likely into N. Hemisphere spring

Jul. 9, 2015 at 1:02 pm CDT

By Reuters

Minogue: Biotech gets its due at international rapeseed forum

Jul. 8, 2015 at 7:37 pm CDT

By Leeann Minogue

CBOT weekly outlook: Choppy, two-sided trade ahead for corn, soy

Jul. 8, 2015 at 5:04 pm CDT

By Dave Sims

ConAgra turns to Centerview again for advice on Ralcorp

Jul. 8, 2015 at 4:56 pm CDT

Reuters — ConAgra Foods has hired Centerview Partners to explore a sale of its private label unit Ralcorp, just two years after it acquired the troubled business with advice from the same investment bank, people familiar with the matter said. The maker of Chef Boyardee and Slim Jim snacks, which […]

By Lauren Hirsch Olivia Oran

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise in rebound from one-week low

Jul. 8, 2015 at 4:40 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybean futures rose from a one-week low on Wednesday on bargain buying and renewed concerns about excessive rains hurting U.S. production, while wheat tumbled on poor export demand. Corn futures ended near unchanged. Forecasts for more unwanted storms in parts of the U.S. Midwest lifted […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Stock market turmoil rattles CME live cattle

Jul. 8, 2015 at 4:29 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures settled lower on Wednesday, pressured in part by the tumbling Chinese stock market and its impact on Wall Street, traders said. World markets were shaken during the day by a halt in New York Stock Exchange trading, the crash in […]

By Theopolis Waters

PotashCorp not planning to increase K+S bid

Jul. 8, 2015 at 2:53 pm CDT

Reuters — Canada’s PotashCorp does not plan to sweeten its bid for German rival K+S AG, several people familiar with the Canadian mineral miner said, downplaying a media report that it would consider such a move. The proposed bid of 41 euros (C$58) per share already represented an unusually high […]

By Reuters

MF Global officials settle lawsuit for US$64.5M

Jul. 8, 2015 at 1:15 am CDT

New York | Reuters — Jon Corzine and other former MF Global Holdings officials have reached a US$64.5 million settlement of litigation brought by investors seeking to hold them liable for the now-defunct futures brokerage’s 2011 bankruptcy. The all-cash settlement with Corzine, who was MF Global’s chief executive and previously […]

By jonathan-stempel