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Feb. 26, 2015 at 9:46 am CST

London | Reuters –– Global corn production is expected to fall by five per cent in 2015-16 from this season’s record level and the world wheat crop to decline by a more modest two per cent, the International Grains Council (IGC) forecast on Thursday. The intergovernmental body, in a monthly […]

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Feb. 25, 2015 at 5:10 pm CST

Winnipeg/New York | Reuters — Archer Daniels Midland , one of the world’s top biofuels producers, has slowed North American biodiesel output, the latest sign the industry is battling uncertainty over U.S. renewable fuel policy while the oil rout curbs demand. The Chicago-based agri business has “temporarily” shifted production at […]

By Chris Prentice, Rod Nickel

Feb. 25, 2015 at 4:57 pm CST

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Truckers staged nearly 100 roadblocks across Brazil’s farm belt on Wednesday as protests stretched into their eighth day, though access to the country’s biggest port was cleared after police clashed with protesters who had briefly halted traffic there. The steadily widening blockades have sparked growing […]

By Marcelo Teixeira, Reese Ewing

Feb. 25, 2015 at 4:39 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybeans retreated on Wednesday from a six-week high earlier this week, on prospects for an imminent end to the Brazilian truck drivers’ strike which had threatened exports just as the country’s massive soybean crop was entering world markets. CBOT wheat also fell […]

By Christine Stebbins

Feb. 25, 2015 at 4:29 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs posted their sixth straight higher settlement on Wednesday as prices for market-ready (cash) hogs edged upward, traders said. April futures closed 0.75 cent per pound higher at 69.325 cents, and May up 2.85 cents at 81.9 cents (all figures US$). Wednesday […]

By Theopolis Waters