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Bayer to exit US seed treatment equipment business, email says

May. 1, 2025 at 10:17 am CDT

Bayer is exiting the seed treatment equipment business in the United States to help the company's finances, according to an email sent to customers that was seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

US farm agency to require DOGE approval for some loans

May. 1, 2025 at 10:05 am CDT

By Leah Douglas and P.J. Huffstutter Reuters

CNH Industrial lowers annual profit forecast on softening equipment demand

May. 1, 2025 at 9:41 am CDT

By Reuters

Chicago, Illinois, USA - March 28, 2022: Chicago Board of Trade office in Chicago. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the world's oldest futures and options exchanges.

U.S. grains: Corn futures end higher on solid US export sales

Apr. 30, 2025 at 4:34 pm CDT

By Reuters Tom Polansek

US CDC cancels science group workshop on preventing human bird flu infections

Apr. 29, 2025 at 4:41 pm CDT

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U.S. grains: Chicago grains, soy futures drop as U.S. planting pace accelerates

Apr. 29, 2025 at 4:30 pm CDT

Chicago corn and soybean futures ended lower on a volatile day of trading Tuesday, as U.S. farmers raced to plant their fields and investors bemoaned a lack of fresh news over the U.S.-China trade war, traders said.

By P.J. Huffstutter Reuters

Food processing plant interior with fresh pig carcasses hanging in the cold storage.

Smithfield Foods says tariffs make China unviable market for its US pork

Apr. 29, 2025 at 11:51 am CDT

China, the world's biggest pork consumer, is no longer a viable market for top U.S. pork processor Smithfield Foods due to retaliatory tariffs by Beijing, company executives said on Tuesday.

By Reuters Savyata Mishra Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Wheat futures set contract lows on forecasts for beneficial US rain

Apr. 28, 2025 at 4:52 pm CDT

U.S. wheat futures sank to contract lows on Monday on expectations that more rain will hit dry growing areas of the Plains after beneficial showers over the weekend, analysts said.

By Reuters Tom Polansek

A group of cattle in an Alberta feedlot in the summer.

US and Mexico have reached agreement on New World screwworm, Ag Secretary Rollins says

Apr. 28, 2025 at 10:27 am CDT

President Donald Trump's administration warned on Saturday that it will restrict livestock imports from Mexico if that country's government does not intensify its fight against a damaging pest called New World screwworm.

By Reuters

Canadians go to the polls

Apr. 28, 2025 at 10:22 am CDT

Canadians are going to the polls on Monday after an election campaign in which U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and musings about annexing Canada became the central issue. Alberta rancher Bob Lowe says the Canadian economy is his top concern.

By Promit Mukherjee Reuters Rod Nickel