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Asia’s mills eye Canada’s wheat as Australian supply slows

Nov. 21, 2014 at 5:41 pm CST

Singapore | Reuters — Asian flour millers are looking at buying Canadian spring wheat for shipment early next year as supplies from drought-hit Australia are likely to remain slow, traders said. Canadian western red spring wheat is being offered at around $345 a tonne, including cost and freight, nearly unchanged […]

JBS to buy Australia’s Primo for $1.4B

Nov. 21, 2014 at 5:31 pm CST

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U.S. grains: Soy rallies on short-covering, China rate cut

Nov. 21, 2014 at 5:13 pm CST

By Michael Hirtzer

October U.S. cattle placements not as slow as expected

Nov. 21, 2014 at 4:35 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle rise into USDA report

Nov. 21, 2014 at 3:53 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. grains: Corn, soy rebound from two-week lows on exports

Nov. 20, 2014 at 4:29 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn and soybean futures jumped as much as two per cent on Thursday, rebounding from two-week lows reached in the previous session, in a rally tied to technical buying and renewed export demand for the crops. Chicago Board of Trade corn rose for the first […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Argentina sees wheat harvest of 12 million tonnes

Nov. 20, 2014 at 4:22 pm CST

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Argentine farmers will harvest 12 million tonnes of wheat in the 2014-15 crop year, the agriculture ministry said in its monthly report Thursday, issuing its first wheat crop estimate of the season. Argentina’s 2013-14 wheat harvest was 9.2 million tonnes, according to official data. “Losses […]

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Battling graft, China to overhaul grains import quota system

Nov. 20, 2014 at 4:15 pm CST

Beijing | Reuters — China plans to revamp the scheme it uses to allocate quotas for agricultural imports, as part of efforts to stamp out corruption and to rein in record state grain stockpiles, according to government and industry sources. The low-tariff quotas, which are sanctioned under China’s membership of […]

By fayen-wong Niu Shuping

U.S. livestock: CME hogs fall on profit-taking; live cattle end mixed

Nov. 20, 2014 at 3:55 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs closed lower Thursday on profit-taking and fund selling that erased Wednesday’s gains, traders said. December closed down one cent per pound at 90.775 cents, and February 0.75 cent lower at 90.9 cents (all figures US$). Anticipation of weaker-trending cash and wholesale […]

By Theopolis Waters

Obama to offer deportation relief to 250,000 farm workers, union says

Nov. 20, 2014 at 1:44 am CST

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Barack Obama’s immigration reforms would lift the threat of deportation for at least 250,000 undocumented people who work on U.S. farms, Arturo Rodriguez, president of the United Farm Workers union, said Wednesday after meeting with Obama. “We were pleased to learn from the president […]

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