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U.S. livestock: Strong cash prices lift CME live cattle

Jun. 12, 2014 at 4:39 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live cattle futures closed sharply higher Thursday, pushed up by short-covering in response to higher-than-expected prices for slaughter-ready or cash cattle, traders said. Cash cattle in Texas and Kansas moved at $148 per hundredweight (cwt), up $3 from a week ago, according […]

U.S. grains: Soy dives on chart selling, bearish supply view

Jun. 12, 2014 at 4:01 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

EU ministers back deal with option to ban or approve GM crops

Jun. 12, 2014 at 2:15 pm CDT

By barbara-lewis

Declining U.S. DDGs still too expensive for Canada

Jun. 12, 2014 at 1:42 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

ICE weekly outlook: Canola down, but watching weather

Jun. 12, 2014 at 1:07 am CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

ICE durum trades for first time since February 2013

Jun. 11, 2014 at 5:34 pm CDT

CNS Canada — ICE durum futures on Wednesday saw some trade activity for the first time since Feb. 14, 2013, with five October contracts changing hands at weaker prices. The contract dropped $12 per tonne, to settle at $230. This comes just one day after ICE barley contracts saw new […]

By Terryn Shiells

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking halts CME feeder cattle rally

Jun. 11, 2014 at 4:49 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange feeder cattle futures closed sharply lower on Wednesday, pressured by profit-taking that ended the market’s run of six straight sessions at new highs. “It doesn’t surprise me that futures would take a breather after going up so fast,” a trader said. Futures were […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Wheat at 3-1/2-month low after USDA report

Jun. 11, 2014 at 3:23 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. wheat futures fell to a 3-1/2 month low on Wednesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture raised its forecasts of U.S. and world wheat ending stocks above trade expectations in a monthly report, traders said. USDA also raised its estimate of global 2014-15 wheat production, […]

By Julie Ingwersen

‘Bully’ U.S. wrong to criticize Canada on trade, Ritz says

Jun. 11, 2014 at 3:11 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada’s federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz lashed out at the U.S. for acting like a “schoolyard bully” on trade issues, and said he sees more promise in negotiating a bilateral deal with Japan than the more ambitious Trans-Pacific Partnership. Ritz, in an interview with Reuters on […]

By Rod Nickel

Abundant grain, soybean supplies on the way: USDA

Jun. 11, 2014 at 2:51 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — The United States is a month closer to bumper supplies of corn and soybeans, its major field crops, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday in a second look at the 2014-15 U.S. and world grain outlook. Meanwhile, although the U.S. wheat crop is struggling, […]

By Ros Krasny