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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle post gains after wild ride

Jan. 30, 2015 at 3:12 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures finished higher on Friday after an up-and-down session, ultimately supported by short-covering and futures’ discounts to cash prices, traders said. February closed 1.325 cents per pound higher at 154.85 cents, and April up 1.775 cents, to 152.275 cents (all figures […]

U.S. defense of COOL goes to WTO in February

Jan. 29, 2015 at 7:50 pm CST

By Staff

JBS expands Utah beef plant as cattle supply squeezes rivals

Jan. 29, 2015 at 6:25 pm CST

By Reuters

Japan seen set to cut beef, pork tariffs in TPP talks

Jan. 29, 2015 at 5:33 pm CST

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat rallies, rebounds from three-month low

Jan. 29, 2015 at 5:23 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures slump, but off session lows

Jan. 29, 2015 at 5:04 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed lower on Thursday, pressured by profit taking before the last trading day of the month on Friday, traders said. Earlier, February and April triggered sell stops and fund liquidation after falling below the 10-day moving average of 152.95 cents […]

By Theopolis Waters

Hershey to enter meat snacks business, cuts forecast

Jan. 29, 2015 at 1:04 pm CST

Reuters — Chocolate maker Hershey Co. said it would buy Krave Pure Foods Inc. to enter the fast-growing meat snacks market, after higher demand for meat and bakery snacks hurt chocolate sales in the fourth quarter. The maker of Hershey’s Kisses and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups also cut its sales […]

By Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat falls on fund selling

Jan. 28, 2015 at 5:01 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures fell 2.7 per cent on Wednesday to a three-month low on technical selling, plentiful global supplies and forecasts for rains in the U.S. Plains, analysts said. Soybean futures slid as soyoil prices hit their lowest in nearly six years, and […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: CME hogs rally with biggest daily gain in four months

Jan. 28, 2015 at 3:58 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs closed sharply higher Wednesday on short-covering that earlier drove futures to their biggest one-day gain in four months at over two per cent. The electronic is currently trading and is up 1.8 per cent. February closed 2.1 cents per pound higher […]

By Theopolis Waters

Australia’s temperatures found fastest-rising worldwide

Jan. 28, 2015 at 1:36 pm CST

Sydney | Reuters –– Australia faces a rise in temperature of potentially more than 5 C by the end of the century, outpacing global warming worldwide, the country’s national science agency said Tuesday. In its most comprehensive analysis yet of the impacts of climate change, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial […]

By Jane Wardell