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U.S. grains: Soybeans fall to contract lows on speedy plantings

May. 19, 2015 at 6:05 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybeans fell to contract lows while corn eased 1.7 per cent on Tuesday, pressured by faster-than-normal spring plantings and overall favourable crop conditions in the U.S. Wheat futures tumbled two per cent at the Chicago Board of Trade, with all three markets reversing from gains […]

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle rally as beef prices set new high

May. 19, 2015 at 5:41 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. lawmaker sees early June vote to repeal COOL

May. 19, 2015 at 11:05 am CDT

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat jumps on more U.S. rains, frost fears

May. 18, 2015 at 8:10 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle, hogs stumble on supply, demand woes

May. 18, 2015 at 8:05 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

WTO panel rejects final U.S. appeal on COOL

May. 18, 2015 at 12:28 pm CDT

Canada is set to ask the World Trade Organization to allow a long list of retaliatory tariffs against U.S. agrifoods and other goods, after a WTO panel shot down Washington’s final defense of its country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law on meat. The WTO Appellate Body on Monday released its report on […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. loses WTO appeal in meat labeling dispute: source

May. 18, 2015 at 12:43 am CDT

Reuters — The United States has lost its appeal against a World Trade Organization ruling ordering it to bring its meat labeling laws into line with global trade rules, according to a government official familiar with the dispute. In 2011, Canada and Mexico won a WTO ruling that said the […]

By Reuters

Drought prompts cuts to farm irrigation in California, Oregon

May. 16, 2015 at 12:54 am CDT

Portland | Reuters –– The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will cut the amount of federal irrigation water available to farmers along the Oregon-California border to half the annual norm as it grapples with a fourth year of regional drought, the agency said on Friday. Though the roughly 1,200 affected farms […]

By Courtney Sherwood

Sysco sees U.S. bird flu hurting egg supply up to 18 months

May. 16, 2015 at 12:31 am CDT

New York | Reuters — Food distributor Sysco Corp. said on Friday that a record U.S. outbreak of avian flu would limit its chicken and egg supply for nine to 18 months, based on information provided to the company by its suppliers. Sysco is the biggest U.S. food distributor, whose […]

By Anjali Athavaley

Colombia calls off aerial coca spraying

May. 15, 2015 at 6:30 pm CDT

Bogota | Reuters –– Colombia will suspend aerial fumigation of illegal coca plants in light of a number of studies linking the herbicide involved to cancer, a move that marks the end of a decades-long strategy in the country’s fight against drug trafficking. Spraying coca leaves, which are used to […]

By Reuters