Insights and Stories on International

U.S. grains: Wheat tumbles after rally as rain monitored

Mar. 24, 2015 at 3:16 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat tumbled as much as two per cent on Tuesday as investors took profits after the previous session’s five-week high and extended weather outlooks showed the possibility of crop-friendly rains in the U.S. and Russia. Soybean futures also were lower at the Chicago Board of […]

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures extend gains

Mar. 24, 2015 at 3:10 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Chile says drought here to stay, lays out plan to ensure water

Mar. 24, 2015 at 2:56 pm CDT

By Anthony Esposito

DuPont investors to vote on activist firm’s demands in May

Mar. 24, 2015 at 9:56 am CDT

By Reuters

U.S. developing bird flu vaccine, no distribution plans yet

Mar. 23, 2015 at 8:25 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Soy, corn, wheat rise on weak dollar, short-covering

Mar. 23, 2015 at 8:10 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean, corn and wheat futures climbed one per cent or more on Monday, extending gains from late last week as the dollar weakened and investors covered short positions. Dry weather in Russia and the southern U.S. Plains’ growing areas also underpinned wheat prices while corn […]

By Michael Hirtzer

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle up again on cash prices, USDA report

Mar. 23, 2015 at 8:06 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures finished higher for a fifth straight session on Monday, fuelled by last week’s better-than-expected cash prices, traders said. Packers paid $163 to $165 per hundredweight (cwt) for market-ready or cash cattle in the U.S. Plains on Friday, up from $161 […]

By Theopolis Waters

Cattle parasite study points to possible way to fight malaria

Mar. 21, 2015 at 5:09 am CDT

London | Reuters –– Herds of African cattle may hold the secret to new ways of fighting parasitic diseases such as malaria, which kills some 600,000 people a year, scientists said on Friday. The researchers from the University of Edinburgh found that cows are protected from a parasite that causes […]

By Kate Kelland

Argentine soy stocks double as farmer-government tensions rise

Mar. 21, 2015 at 4:59 am CDT

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Argentine farmers have stockpiled more than twice as much soy this year than last, defying a government desperate to increase export tax revenue needed to finance rising state spending ahead of the October presidential election. Growers say the increase in soybean reserves, to 7.4 million […]

By Hugh Bronstein

Monsanto rips cancer agency’s Roundup takedown

Mar. 20, 2015 at 8:02 pm CDT

The decision by an international group of cancer experts to classify the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide as “probably carcinogenic” has drawn fire from the product’s main maker. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a France-based arm of the World Health Organization, on Friday released its working group’s […]

By Staff