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Payment problems reported disrupting Iran food deals

May. 11, 2014 at 3:15 am CDT

London/Ankara | Reuters — Payment problems are disrupting commercial food cargoes to Iran, with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of grain and sugar stuck in transit, as Western banking sanctions complicate deals and trade financiers scale back exposure. Iran is not barred from buying food or other “humanitarian” goods under […]

U.S. livestock: Cheaper corn pushes CME feeder cattle to record high

May. 9, 2014 at 6:26 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Corn tumbles on USDA forecast for rising global supplies

May. 9, 2014 at 5:06 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S., world soybean supplies on the rise, USDA reports

May. 9, 2014 at 3:11 pm CDT

By Ros Krasny

CNH Industrial sees profit rising to $3.4B in 2018

May. 9, 2014 at 8:18 am CDT

World food prices drop in April due to falling dairy

May. 9, 2014 at 8:13 am CDT

Rome | Reuters — Global food prices fell in April, led by a sharp drop in dairy prices due to reduced buying by China and Russia and an extended season in New Zealand that boosted stocks, the United Nations’ food agency said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) […]

Vermont becomes first U.S. state to mandate GMO labeling

May. 9, 2014 at 8:10 am CDT

Reuters — Vermont on Thursday became the first U.S. state to mandate labeling of foods made with genetically modified organisms as Governor Peter Shumlin signed a law that is widely expected to be challenged in court by some food and agriculture companies. The law, set to take effect July 1, […]

By Carey Gillam

U.S. livestock: CME hogs end mixed as funds roll into new months

May. 8, 2014 at 4:10 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures closed mixed on Thursday as funds sold, or rolled, the June contract and bought deferred months, traders said. Funds trading in CME’s hogs and live cattle markets shifted June long positions further back in a procedure known as the “roll” by […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Soybeans jump from one-month low

May. 8, 2014 at 4:05 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rebounded from three days of losses on Thursday and rose more than one per cent in a technical and short-covering bounce and corn firmed as investors squared positions ahead of a monthly crop report scheduled for release on Friday. Wheat futures retreated on […]

By Karl Plume

Rising CO2 levels may cut nutrient levels in crops: study

May. 7, 2014 at 6:37 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — Rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere may cut the nutritional quality of some of the world’s most important food crops, researchers reported Wednesday after conducting experiments simulating conditions expected by mid-century. The amounts of two important nutrients, zinc and iron, were found to […]

By Will Dunham