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U.S. livestock: Lean hogs fall on profit-taking, technical selling

Jun. 16, 2014 at 3:43 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) hogs settled sharply lower on Monday pressured by technical-selling and profit-taking, traders said. Front-month July traded through both the 10-day and 20-day moving average. July also traded at a premium to the CME cash index of 114.75 cents per hundredweight (cwt), which […]

EU agrees on plan to cap use of food-based biofuels

Jun. 13, 2014 at 5:44 pm CDT

By barbara-lewis

Missouri firm recalls beef over SRM concerns

Jun. 13, 2014 at 5:38 pm CDT

U.S. livestock: Firm beef prices help drive CME live cattle higher

Jun. 13, 2014 at 5:20 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans rebound from multi-month lows

Jun. 13, 2014 at 3:23 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

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 […]

By Theopolis Waters

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

Jun. 12, 2014 at 4:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybean futures fell to a two-month low on Thursday on chart-based selling and fund liquidation following a monthly U.S. government report that showed rising global soy supplies, traders said. Corn firmed, gaining against soybeans on spreads, but wheat set a 3-1/2 month low. At the […]

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. goes into battle against deadly orange disease

Jun. 12, 2014 at 2:28 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday a total of US$31.5 million in funding to combat a plant disease that threatens to devastate Florida’s $9 billion citrus industry and has driven up the cost of a glass of orange juice. As many as 70 per […]

By Ros Krasny

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

Jun. 12, 2014 at 2:15 pm CDT

Luxembourg | Reuters — A compromise deal to give European Union states the option of banning genetically modified crops won approval from EU environment ministers on Thursday, bringing the EU closer to ending years of deadlock over GM cultivation. Widely grown in the Americas and Asia, GM crops in Europe […]

By barbara-lewis

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