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U.S. livestock: CME hog futures rise again with cash prices

Feb. 24, 2015 at 3:08 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hogs rose for a fifth session in a row on Tuesday, helped by short-covering in response to rising prices for market-ready (cash) hogs, traders said. April futures closed 0.25 cent per pound higher at 68.575 cents, and May up 0.8 cent, […]

Agrium profit beats Street, helped by higher grain prices

Feb. 23, 2015 at 8:00 pm CST

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Industry braces for impact as CN lockout deadline nears

Feb. 23, 2015 at 6:59 pm CST

By Allison Martell

Canada seen sowing slightly less canola, more durum

Feb. 23, 2015 at 5:03 pm CST

By Rod Nickel

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat slide to near three-week lows as dollar firms

Feb. 23, 2015 at 4:52 pm CST

By Christine Stebbins

Peru, Taiwan, Belarus ban Canadian beef over BSE case

Feb. 23, 2015 at 4:17 pm CST

Reuters — Three more countries have blocked imports of Canadian beef or beef products, following Canada’s discovery of BSE earlier this month, its first in four years. Taiwan, Peru and Belarus have imposed trade restrictions on beef and/or beef products, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said on Monday in an […]

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U.S. livestock: CME hogs rally on cash prices, port dispute end

Feb. 23, 2015 at 3:26 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs finished higher on Monday on strong cash prices and the resumption of cargo loading following Friday’s West Coast port labour agreement, traders said. CME hogs drew more support from the dockworker deal because the U.S. exports more pork than beef and […]

By Theopolis Waters

UN team investigates Saudi surge in deadly MERS virus

Feb. 21, 2015 at 2:20 pm CST

London | Reuters –– An international team of United Nations human and animal health experts has flown to Saudi Arabia to investigate a recent surge in cases of a deadly virus causing Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). Speaking from Riyadh on Friday, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization-led team […]

By Kate Kelland

Canada demands oil trains carry more insurance, levy imposed

Feb. 21, 2015 at 2:07 pm CST

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada will increase the insurance railways must carry when they haul crude oil and impose a levy on shippers to help cover the cost of major accidents in the burgeoning oil-by-rail industry, Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said Friday. Raitt unveiled the measures in a bill which […]

By Randall Palmer

Contract negotiators for U.S. West Coast ports reach tentative deal

Feb. 21, 2015 at 10:14 am CST

Los Angeles | Reuters — A group of shipping companies and a powerful dockworkers union clinched a tentative labour deal on Friday after nine months of negotiations, settling a dispute that disrupted the flow of cargo through 29 U.S. West Coast ports and snarled trans-Pacific maritime trade with Asia. The […]

By Steve Gorman