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U.S. grains: Soybeans sag after monthly USDA report

Mar. 10, 2015 at 5:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures fell on Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture surprised analysts by leaving its forecast of domestic soy inventories unchanged in a monthly report. A strong dollar hung over the commodities sector, pressuring grains as well as crude oil and […]

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures mixed as dollar, stocks weigh

Mar. 10, 2015 at 4:53 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

USDA cuts world, U.S. corn stocks view as exports heat up

Mar. 10, 2015 at 4:47 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

McDonald’s vows ‘modern’ makeover amid U.S. sales struggle

Mar. 9, 2015 at 8:10 pm CDT

By Lisa Baertlein

U.S. grains: Wheat up 1.6 per cent in bounce from contract lows

Mar. 9, 2015 at 4:29 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking undermines CME live cattle

Mar. 9, 2015 at 4:24 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle ended lower on Monday, pressured by profit-taking and funds that sold or “rolled” April contracts and simultaneously bought deferred months, traders said. Funds involved in CME’s livestock markets that follow the Standard + Poor’s Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (S+P GSCI) shifted […]

By Theopolis Waters

EU farmers fear ‘roller coaster’ as milk market deregulated

Mar. 6, 2015 at 4:41 pm CST

Belview Port, Ireland | Reuters –– Billions of euros and thousands of jobs will flow from the historic deregulation of Europe’s dairy sector, a string of Irish ministers promised at the opening this week of a vast new plant to make dried milk for developing markets. But elsewhere in the […]

By Conor Humphries

Argentina says ‘worried’ about flooded soy fields

Mar. 6, 2015 at 4:26 pm CST

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Flooding in some of the soy-growing areas of Cordoba, Entre Rios and Santa Fe provinces has become “worrying” to the government as farmers get ready to start harvesting the 2014-15 crop, the agriculture ministry said in its weekly report on Friday. The northern part of […]

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Costco working to end use of human antibiotics in chicken

Mar. 6, 2015 at 4:15 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Costco Wholesale Corp. is working toward eliminating the sale of chicken and meat from other animals raised with antibiotics that are vital to fighting human infections, senior executives at the third-largest U.S. retailer told Reuters on Thursday. The ongoing push by Costco, which sells 80 million […]

By Nathan Layne

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures jump with cash prices

Mar. 6, 2015 at 3:40 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle settled higher on Friday, driven by short-covering in response to strong preliminary cash prices, traders said. April closed 1.375 cents per pound higher at 154.65 cents, and June ended up 1.075 cents at 147.1 cents (all figures US$). A small number […]

By Theopolis Waters