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Sep. 26, 2014 at 4:36 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — The European Union and Canada on Friday dismissed threats by a top German politician to block a free trade deal the two sides wrapped up in August after five years of often difficult negotiations. The deal could increase bilateral trade by a fifth to 26 billion […]

By David Ljunggren

Sep. 25, 2014 at 6:16 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — Prices for many U.S. meats, already at record highs, continued to increase on a combination of drought and disease that have culled herds, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday. Retail beef and veal prices spiked by 4.2 per cent from July to August, the largest […]

Sep. 25, 2014 at 5:04 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs closed lower on Thursday, pressured by active U.S. stock market selling as the dollar surged to a four-year high, traders and analysts said. The strong dollar makes U.S. goods including pork less attractive to foreign buyers. Hog futures’ losses mounted after […]

By Theopolis Waters

Sep. 25, 2014 at 3:19 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures plunged more than one per cent on Thursday to a four-year low on fears that a rising dollar could hamper global demand for U.S. exports as global supplies rise to a record high. Corn and soybeans dropped about one per cent on spillover […]

By Karl Plume

Sep. 25, 2014 at 10:05 am CDT

Paris | Reuters –– An unusually large cargo of Canadian wheat was due to unload at Rouen, northern France, this week, port data showed on Thursday, adding to evidence that buyers are being forced to offset lower quality grain from this year’s French harvest. France usually imports small amounts of […]