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Mar. 7, 2014 at 4:07 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada and South Korea are very close to signing a long-delayed free trade deal after years of talks, sources familiar with the negotiations said Thursday. “It’s imminent,” said one business source, who asked for anonymity because a formal announcement had not been made yet. “They are […]

By David Ljunggren

Mar. 6, 2014 at 5:34 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade corn prices rose to a six-month high on Thursday as stronger-than-expected weekly U.S. export sales data underscored renewed demand for the grain, traders said. Soybeans rose more than one per cent on continued export demand for tightening U.S. supplies and ahead of […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Mar. 5, 2014 at 5:01 pm CST

United Nations | Reuters — If the fighting in South Sudan prevents people from planting crops over the next three months, the country will be headed for a humanitarian disaster, the humanitarian co-ordinator for the United Nations in South Sudan said Tuesday. The conflict in the world’s youngest country erupted […]

By Louis Charbonneau

Mar. 5, 2014 at 4:36 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures closed lower on Wednesday after a choppy session as the market’s rally to the highest levels in nearly six months triggered profit-taking and farmer selling, traders said. Wheat slipped from a near three-month high, but worries about political turmoil in Ukraine, a major […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Mar. 5, 2014 at 4:12 pm CST

Kiev | Reuters — Foreign trading houses have shunned new grain export contracts due to continued tensions between Ukraine and Russia, Ukraine’s agriculture minister Ihor Shvaika said on Wednesday. “They are still waiting and there are no new contracts,” Shvaika told Reuters. In the wider dispute Wednesday, Russia rebuffed Western […]