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Deere cuts profit forecast as farm equipment sales decline

Feb. 20, 2015 at 7:27 pm CST

Reuters — Farm equipment maker Deere and Co. posted a 43 per cent fall in first-quarter profit and cut its full-year profit forecast as lower corn prices and weak farm income weighed on demand for agricultural machinery. The company, which gets nearly two-thirds of its revenue from farm and turf […]

Swollen U.S. meat inventories mirror strong demand headwinds

Feb. 20, 2015 at 7:23 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

Ireland says China agrees to lift ban on Irish beef

Feb. 20, 2015 at 7:18 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soybeans close week lower

Feb. 20, 2015 at 4:07 pm CST

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle slump before USDA report

Feb. 20, 2015 at 3:37 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

Love to eat eggs? U.S. panel now says they’re not a health risk

Feb. 19, 2015 at 5:13 pm CST

New York | Reuters — Egg and red meat lovers may find reason to rejoice in a decision by a U.S. advisory health panel to remove warnings about dietary cholesterol, saying that there is no link to dangerous levels of blood cholesterol that cause disease. The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee […]

By yasmeen-abutaleb

West Coast port impasse beefs up U.S. meat stockpile

Feb. 19, 2015 at 5:06 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. meat exporters caught in the middle of the West Coast port labour standoff diverted millions of pounds of chilled pork and beef into cold storage facilities over the last few weeks, creating an oversupply of meat, analysts said. Redirected protein shipments come as frozen inventories […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Soybeans set five-week high on predicted drop in plantings

Feb. 19, 2015 at 4:50 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures jumped to a five-week high on Thursday after the U.S. Agriculture Department projected farmers will plant fewer acres than traders expected in response to falling prices. Corn futures also advanced, while wheat finished flat to lower. USDA, in data released at its annual […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Improved fundamentals extend CME hogs’ advances

Feb. 19, 2015 at 4:45 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs gained for a second straight session on Thursday, helped by firmer cash and wholesale pork prices, traders said. April futures closed up 2.825 cents per pound at 67.05 cents, and May 2.325 cents higher at 76.725 cents (all figures US$). Thursday […]

By Theopolis Waters

Double-cropping project aims to cut Indian lentil imports

Feb. 19, 2015 at 11:48 am CST

Researchers on a project in India and Bangladesh say they hope it will greatly reduce their lentil imports. Farmers in the project are growing lentils in fields left fallow after rice harvests, with the help of a research and training project by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the […]

By Staff