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Russia starts spring seeding with raised hopes for harvest

Mar. 4, 2015 at 4:44 pm CST

Moscow | Reuters –– Russian farmers have started their spring seeding campaign with prospects for the 2015 crop brighter than first thought, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday. Russia, one of the main key wheat exporters to North Africa and the Middle East, needs a good crop after a sharp […]

Australia clears JBS bid for pork firm Primo

Mar. 4, 2015 at 4:35 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop for third day

Mar. 4, 2015 at 4:27 pm CST

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle, hogs veer sharply higher

Mar. 4, 2015 at 4:23 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

McDonald’s to phase out human antibiotics from U.S. chicken supply

Mar. 4, 2015 at 11:31 am CST

By Lisa Baertlein P.J. Huffstutter

Killers sought in deaths of 300,000 chickens in South Carolina

Mar. 3, 2015 at 7:23 pm CST

Charleston | Reuters –– Revenge may be the motive for the killings in South Carolina of more than 300,000 commercial chickens worth about $1.7 million over the past two weeks, authorities said Monday. Birds have been found dead of unnatural causes in 16 chicken houses at six farms that grow […]

By Harriet McLeod

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall to one-week low on Brazil strike pause, harvest

Mar. 3, 2015 at 6:40 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybeans fell to a one-week low on Tuesday in a technical selloff sparked by a weakening truckers strike in Brazil and the advancing harvest of what’s expected to be Brazil’s biggest soy crop ever. Soybean futures trimmed their losses late in the session while corn […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Brazil truck strike wanes; more soy gets to ports

Mar. 3, 2015 at 6:15 pm CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Only a handful of roads remained blocked in Brazil on Tuesday as truck drivers focused their grievances on Brasilia and a key highway in top soy state Mato Grosso opened after two weeks of protests. There were seven protests over rising freight costs affecting federal […]

By Caroline Stauffer Gustavo Bonato

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking sinks CME live cattle, hogs

Mar. 3, 2015 at 6:10 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed sharply lower on Tuesday, racked by profit-taking and fund liquidation, traders said. April closed 2.4 cents lower at 151.05 cents, and June down 2.125 cents, to 143.675 cents (all figures US$). Funds sold after April and June drifted below […]

By Theopolis Waters

Argentina tracks soy hoarding by registering silo bag sales

Mar. 2, 2015 at 6:52 pm CST

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina will keep an eye on how much soy is being hoarded on farms throughout the country by requiring that the sales of silo bags be reported to tax authorities, according to a government resolution announced Monday. The oblong industrial-strength plastic bags have come to […]

By Hugh Bronstein