Insights and Stories on International

ADM profit jumps as big U.S. harvest boosts ag services

Feb. 3, 2015 at 1:03 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland on Tuesday reported higher quarterly earnings as a record-large U.S. harvest boosted grain volumes and supported strong exports, though revenue fell short of expectations. Earnings in agricultural services, ADM’s biggest business segment in terms of revenue, grew as bumper U.S. corn […]

China said planning bigger role for market in grains pricing

Feb. 3, 2015 at 3:56 am CST

By Dominique Patton Niu Shuping

Obama proposes creation of stand-alone U.S. food safety agency

Feb. 2, 2015 at 7:36 pm CST

By Reuters

Cargill begins selling GM corn seed at centre of lawsuits

Feb. 2, 2015 at 7:31 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Markets sag under pressure from hefty global supplies

Feb. 2, 2015 at 5:59 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Hogs fall to four-year low, cattle tumble on supply

Feb. 2, 2015 at 5:53 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. lean hogs fell one per cent to a more than four-year low on Monday, while live and feeder cattle also tumbled as investors liquidated long holdings on signs of plentiful supplies. Hog prices declined in U.S. Midwest cash markets, where pork packers had enough of […]

By Michael Hirtzer

NASA launches satellite to map soil moisture

Jan. 31, 2015 at 2:45 pm CST

Reuters — An unmanned Delta 2 rocket was launched Saturday to put a NASA satellite into orbit that is expected to improve drought monitoring and flooding forecasts. The 39-metre rocket, built and flown by United Launch Alliance, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 6:22 a.m. PT, […]

By Irene Klotz

Argentina to restrict wheat export permits if low prices paid

Jan. 31, 2015 at 2:28 pm CST

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Wheat exporters who buy the grain from Argentina’s farmers will not be issued permits if they pay the growers significantly less than the international price for the crop, the government said Friday. The announcement, by Economy Minister Axel Kicillof, followed complaints by local producers that […]

By Reuters

Aggressive herd expansion reverses shrinking U.S. cattle supply

Jan. 30, 2015 at 4:42 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Affordable feed and record-high spikes in cattle prices in 2014 encouraged U.S. ranchers to increase their herds at a faster pace than previously expected during the past year, analysts said in response to a government yearly cattle report on Friday. Expansion efforts by producers helped turnaround […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soy fall on month-end fund selling

Jan. 30, 2015 at 4:20 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat, corn and soybean futures fell to multi-month lows Friday on commodity fund liquidation at the month’s end amid ample world stocks and fears of slowing growth, traders said. “We are building in record crops in South America, and we are washing out some spec […]

By Julie Ingwersen