Insights and Stories on International

H5N2 avian flu found in Minnesota turkey flock

Mar. 6, 2015 at 12:46 pm CST

U.S. officials have confirmed a commercial turkey flock in central Minnesota to be the first in the Mississippi flyway with a highly pathogenic strain of H5N2 avian flu. The high-path strain is confirmed as the same seen in recent months in backyard flocks and wild birds in the Pacific flyway […]

Australia backs farmers on foreign ownership gripes

Mar. 5, 2015 at 6:47 pm CST

By Colin Packham

Access to Brazil’s Itajai port to open as truck protest ends

Mar. 5, 2015 at 6:40 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat falls to five-month low on dollar, big supplies

Mar. 5, 2015 at 3:40 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

U.S. livestock: CME hogs drop with cash, wholesale pork prices

Mar. 5, 2015 at 3:31 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

Floods in Argentina expected to cause soy crop losses

Mar. 5, 2015 at 2:58 pm CST

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Some of Argentina’s northern soy-growing areas were flooded by heavy rains in the past week, the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange said Thursday, warning that it may lower its 57 million-tonne 2014-15 harvest forecast in the coming weeks. The country is the world’s No. 3 soybean […]

By Reuters

Russia’s Uralkali to invest US$4.5B to stay potash No. 1

Mar. 5, 2015 at 11:53 am CST

Moscow | Reuters –– Russia’s Uralkali will invest US$4.5 billion over the next five years to raise production capacity by 30 per cent, aiming to remain the world’s largest potash company despite a setback at a major mine. Uralkali’s capacity to produce potash, a crop nutrient, came into focus after […]

By Polina Devitt

Fund selling keeps U.S. wheat futures pointed down

Mar. 5, 2015 at 11:43 am CST

CNS Canada –– Chicago wheat futures dropped to fresh contract lows Thursday and have more room to the downside from a chart perspective as speculators continue to add to their short positions, according to a broker. “It’s a momentum trade here with the funds,” said Adam Knosalla, a broker with […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Argentine farmers to halt crop sales for three days in protest

Mar. 4, 2015 at 5:23 pm CST

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Argentine farmers will suspend grain sales for three days to protest export quotas and other government policies they say hurt profits, the country’s main growers’ organizations said Tuesday. The strike will start on Wednesday, March 11, leaders of three of Argentina’s biggest farm groups told […]

By Maximilian Heath

CBOT weekly: Soybeans, corn await next USDA reports

Mar. 4, 2015 at 4:49 pm CST

CNS Canada –– Soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) moved up and down during the week ended Wednesday, but posted losses on the whole as concerns over a truckers’ strike in Brazil subsided. While large South American crop prospects remain a bearish influence in the background, the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin