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U.S. grains: Corn gets biggest boost of new year as dollar slips

Feb. 3, 2015 at 5:25 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and wheat futures climbed four per cent on Tuesday amid a broad-based rally in commodities led by crude oil as the dollar slipped to a near-two-week low on weaker domestic economic data, traders said. Chicago Board of Trade grain markets were overdue for a […]

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle rebound with beef prices

Feb. 3, 2015 at 5:18 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

New Washington poultry quarantine set up near B.C. border

Feb. 3, 2015 at 4:52 pm CST

By P.J. Huffstutter

ADM profit jumps as big U.S. harvest boosts ag services

Feb. 3, 2015 at 1:03 pm CST

By Karl Plume

China said planning bigger role for market in grains pricing

Feb. 3, 2015 at 3:56 am CST

By Dominique Patton Niu Shuping

Obama proposes creation of stand-alone U.S. food safety agency

Feb. 2, 2015 at 7:36 pm CST

Reuters — U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed bringing together the country’s food safety operations into one agency to better monitor food quality in a move that would reshape the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The proposal was put forward as part of the President’s 2016 budget plan. The new […]

By Reuters

Cargill begins selling GM corn seed at centre of lawsuits

Feb. 2, 2015 at 7:31 pm CST

Reuters — Cargill has started selling a variety of genetically modified Syngenta corn seed that previously disrupted U.S. grain trading, now that China has approved imports of the biotech crop. Cargill, one of the top U.S. grain exporters, began selling seed containing the Agrisure Viptera trait last month and scrapped […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. grains: Markets sag under pressure from hefty global supplies

Feb. 2, 2015 at 5:59 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures dropped to a four-month low on Monday while corn and soybeans hovered near multi-month lows as large crop inventories kept a lid on prices. Traders focused on hefty grain supplies as crop weather improved in South America, with scattered showers in Brazil easing […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Hogs fall to four-year low, cattle tumble on supply

Feb. 2, 2015 at 5:53 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. lean hogs fell one per cent to a more than four-year low on Monday, while live and feeder cattle also tumbled as investors liquidated long holdings on signs of plentiful supplies. Hog prices declined in U.S. Midwest cash markets, where pork packers had enough of […]

By Michael Hirtzer

NASA launches satellite to map soil moisture

Jan. 31, 2015 at 2:45 pm CST

Reuters — An unmanned Delta 2 rocket was launched Saturday to put a NASA satellite into orbit that is expected to improve drought monitoring and flooding forecasts. The 39-metre rocket, built and flown by United Launch Alliance, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 6:22 a.m. PT, […]

By Irene Klotz