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Oct. 1, 2014 at 5:12 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle contracts on Wednesday settled up at their maximum three-cents daily price limit, lifted by live cattle futures’ climb to a new high, traders and analysts said. They also cited strong prices for calves for fattening and the corn price slide to […]

By Theopolis Waters

Oct. 1, 2014 at 4:34 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Statistics Canada releases updated estimates on the size of the 2014-15 crops on Friday, but the lateness of the harvest in many areas will limit how much stock the industry puts in the numbers at this time. Average trade guesses generally predict a slight increase for most […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Sep. 30, 2014 at 6:13 pm CDT

Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking over a series of industrial grain and oilseed reports discontinued in 2011 by the U.S. Census Bureau, but USDA will not begin publishing data until 2015, a spokesman said Monday. The reports being relaunched include statistics for the dry and wet […]

Sep. 30, 2014 at 6:10 pm CDT

Reuters –– Mosaic Co., the world’s largest maker of finished phosphate products, said Tuesday it will reduce phosphate output, and it dampened sales expectations. The U.S. fertilizer producer said the curtailment, due to the high costs of raw materials sulfur and ammonia, is not expected to result in worker layoffs. […]

By Rod Nickel

Sep. 30, 2014 at 6:07 pm CDT

Brussels | Reuters — The European Commission on Tuesday announced a new set of measures, worth up to 165 million euros, to help fruit and vegetable producers hit by a Russian ban on agricultural imports. Last month Moscow imposed a one-year embargo on meat, fish, dairy, fruit and vegetables from […]