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Foreign ‘land grabs’ seeing redrawing global farmland ownership map

Nov. 29, 2014 at 2:28 pm CST

Rome | Thomson Reuters Foundation — A handful of wealthy countries are responsible for most international farmland acquisitions — what some critics term “land grabs” — in a trend that is redrawing the global map of land ownership, a new study has found. China, the U.S., Britain, Germany, Singapore and […]

U.S. grains: Wheat nears five-month top as Russia tightens export rules

Nov. 28, 2014 at 6:13 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end mixed on month-end positioning

Nov. 28, 2014 at 6:07 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

IGC raises forecast for 2014-15 global corn crop

Nov. 27, 2014 at 5:08 pm CST

By Reuters

Bird flu outbreak in India caused by strain humans can contract

Nov. 27, 2014 at 5:04 pm CST

By Reuters

French farmers cry wolf over sheep killings

Nov. 27, 2014 at 5:00 pm CST

Paris | Reuters — French farmers, who regularly bring livestock into Paris to punctuate their protests, drove some 250 sheep into the shadow of the Eiffel Tower on Thursday to highlight an unusual concern — that a growing wolf population is killing their flocks. Wolves were reintroduced to France in […]

By Reuters

Russia may consider floating tariff on grain exports as last resort

Nov. 27, 2014 at 4:51 pm CST

Moscow | Reuters — Russia, a key wheat exporter to North Africa and the Middle East, may consider imposing a floating tariff on grain exports as a measure of last resort to defend the domestic market in 2015, its deputy agriculture minister said Thursday. Russia shocked grain markets in 2010 […]

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Deere sees equipment sales falling further as farm incomes drop

Nov. 26, 2014 at 5:57 pm CST

Reuters — Deere and Co. said it expected equipment sales to fall further as lower grain prices discourage farmers from buying tractors, harvesters and other machinery. Shares of the world’s largest farm equipment maker fell as much as four per cent in premarket trading Wednesday. Deere’s sales have been hit […]

By sagarika-jaisinghani

Ontario’s curbs on neonics may protect bees but diminish crops

Nov. 26, 2014 at 5:31 pm CST

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Ontario’s move to protect bees by reducing use of a pesticide seed treatment may diminish corn and soybean production, seed companies said on Wednesday. Beekeepers welcomed the move by Ontario, the first North American government to curb use of seed treated with neonicotinoids, which are used […]

By Rod Nickel

Record-heavy U.S. cattle won’t ground sky-high beef prices

Nov. 26, 2014 at 5:02 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle are hitting record weights and the heavier trend should continue next year, but beef production will still fall short of demand and keep prices high, industry experts said. Breeding bigger cattle is the only way to raise domestic beef supplies while ranchers struggle to rebuild […]

By Theopolis Waters