Insights and Stories on International

Australia beef exports to fall on lower slaughter rate

Apr. 17, 2015 at 12:10 pm CDT

Sydney | Reuters — Exports of Australian beef are likely to fall faster than previously expected as slaughter rates drop off as a two-year drought eases, threatening to add fuel to a rally in U.S. beef prices. A record slaughter rate has dropped nearly a fifth in the last two […]

Syngenta sales feel effect of low commodity prices

Apr. 17, 2015 at 11:53 am CDT

By Alice Baghdjian Joshua Franklin

Russia’s ag ministry proposes to cancel wheat export tax

Apr. 17, 2015 at 11:41 am CDT

By Reuters

U.S. grains: K.C. wheat to multi-year lows as rains reach Plains

Apr. 16, 2015 at 6:12 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Nestle says taking action to keep top slot in food industry

Apr. 16, 2015 at 5:41 pm CDT

By Martinne Geller

Fast-track avoids ‘mistakes from our past’ on trade: Obama

Apr. 16, 2015 at 5:09 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters –– U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday praised a bipartisan bill that would fast-track trade deals through Congress, urging lawmakers to pass it quickly so his administration can advance a trade pact with Pacific nations. “The bill put forward today would help us write those rules in […]

By Reuters

Brazil’s Rural Society contests limits on foreign land purchases

Apr. 16, 2015 at 4:55 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil’s Rural Society, a group representing large- and medium-scale farmers, filed a case with the country’s Supreme Court on Thursday seeking to overturn restrictions on the amount of land foreigners can purchase. The attorney general’s office tightened restrictions on foreign land ownership in Brazil in […]

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures up for fourth straight day

Apr. 16, 2015 at 4:19 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures gained for the fourth day in a row on Thursday, again helped by their discounts to cash prices, traders said. April ended up 0.075 cent per pound at 160.8 cents and June, 0.325 cent higher at 152 cents (all figures […]

By Theopolis Waters

Argentine farmers say Monsanto soy contract breaks local law

Apr. 16, 2015 at 4:48 am CDT

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentine farm groups on Wednesday asked soy export companies to stop inspecting cargoes for bootlegged biotechnology at the behest of U.S. seed company Monsanto, the latest move in a long conflict between the country’s farmers and Monsanto. Growers in Argentina, the world’s top exporter of […]

By Maximilian Heath

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy feel slight technical pressure

Apr. 15, 2015 at 6:13 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Chicago Board of Trade corn and soybean markets trended slightly lower during the week ended Wednesday, but weather concerns for both grains helped keep the bottom from falling out. “We’re a little dry out in the west here and we’re probably too moist, east and southeast,” said […]

By Dave Sims