Insights and Stories on International

U.S. Senate pushes Obama’s Pacific Rim trade pact forward

Jun. 23, 2015 at 8:31 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for “fast-track” trade negotiating authority to help him strike a Pacific Rim deal cleared a key hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, paving the way for a final vote on the legislation Wednesday. On Wednesday, the Senate was likely to […]

Ag chem sector defends 2,4-D over cancer classification

Jun. 23, 2015 at 7:48 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

CME’s futures pit closures delayed to July 6 or later

Jun. 23, 2015 at 5:31 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat soars as rains threaten Midwest’s harvest

Jun. 23, 2015 at 5:18 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Syngenta tests investor support for Monsanto opposition

Jun. 23, 2015 at 3:51 pm CDT

By Ludwig Burger Oliver Hirt

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle retreat, hogs end mixed

Jun. 23, 2015 at 3:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle turned lower on Monday, pressured by profit-taking and futures’ modest premiums to last week’s cash prices, traders said. June closed 0.45 cent per pound lower at 152 cents, and August was down 0.075 cent, to 151.825 cents (all figures US$). Futures […]

By Theopolis Waters

WHO agency says insecticides lindane, DDT linked to cancer

Jun. 23, 2015 at 10:42 am CDT

London | Reuters — The insecticide lindane, once widely used in agriculture and to treat human lice and scabies, causes cancer and has been specifically linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) also said that DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) […]

By Kate Kelland

Groups urge tighter controls as U.S. considers GM crop regulation

Jun. 22, 2015 at 6:08 pm CDT

Reuters — Dozens of consumer and food groups and businesses asked the U.S. government on Monday for tighter regulation of genetically engineered crops, calling the current system a “failure.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture has said it was considering changes to the way it regulates biotech crops and set a […]

By Carey Gillam

Russia to extend ban on Western food imports to early 2016

Jun. 22, 2015 at 5:50 pm CDT

Moscow | Reuters — Russia plans to extend a ban on Western food imports for six months starting from early August, after the European Union extended its own sanctions against Moscow, Russian officials said Monday. European Union foreign ministers extended economic sanctions against Russia until Jan. 31 on Monday, keeping […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans hit six-week high on weather jitters

Jun. 22, 2015 at 5:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures climbed to a six-week high on Monday on concerns about tightening old-crop supplies and excessive rains trimming new-crop yield prospects, traders said. Wheat and corn also rose. At the Chicago Board of Trade, the July soybean contract settled up 18 cents at $9.89-1/2 […]

By Julie Ingwersen