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World hunger easing but one in nine people undernourished, food agencies say

Sep. 17, 2014 at 2:42 am CDT

Rome | Reuters — The number of hungry people in the world has fallen sharply over the past decade but 805 million, or one in nine of the global population, still do not have enough to eat, three U.N. food and agriculture agencies said on Tuesday. The number of chronically […]

Cargill says closing Memphis corn mill

Sep. 17, 2014 at 2:29 am CDT

Pit traders abandon lawsuit against CME over grain rules

Sep. 17, 2014 at 2:22 am CDT

By Tom Polansek

USDA chief says urged Buffett to ready BNSF for record crops

Sep. 17, 2014 at 2:16 am CDT

Crop damage limited from freeze in northern U.S. Midwest

Sep. 16, 2014 at 4:52 pm CDT

U.S. spring wheat protein premiums soar after wet, cool summer

Sep. 16, 2014 at 4:47 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Cash prices for top quality U.S. hard red spring wheat are soaring as the rain-delayed harvest throws up lower-than-average protein levels, and traders and analysts said outsized premiums are likely to continue for months. Farmers are expecting the largest harvest in four years as wet, cool […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Food ban, population influx seen boosting Russia grain demand

Sep. 16, 2014 at 4:40 pm CDT

Moscow | Reuters — Russia’s ban on most Western food, the assimilation of the disputed Crimea region and people fleeing conflict in Ukraine are set to boost Russian grain demand this year, SovEcon, one of the country’s leading agriculture consultancies, said. Russia, expected to be the world’s third-largest wheat exporter […]

By Polina Devitt

Canada’s small fertilizer firms shuffle ranks, search for capital

Sep. 16, 2014 at 4:35 pm CDT

Reuters — Capital-strapped small fertilizer companies in Canada are shuffling their senior executive ranks to draw investors in a period of weak prices. Stonegate Agricom Ltd., which is developing a phosphate mine in Idaho, said on Tuesday that CEO Mark Ashcroft resigned, the latest change at the top among small […]

By Rod Nickel

Calif. governor OKs bills to regulate groundwater amid drought

Sep. 16, 2014 at 4:28 pm CDT

Reuters — California Governor Jerry Brown signed a package of bills on Tuesday to regulate California’s stressed groundwater supplies amid a drought that is expected to cost the state US$2.2 billion in lost crops, jobs and other damages, with no end in sight. The bills will allow the state to […]

By Aaron Mendelson

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle close lower on cash price outlook

Sep. 16, 2014 at 4:09 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed down slightly on Tuesday in anticipation of likely lower prices for market-ready or cash cattle this week, traders said. October and December live cattle both ended 0.15 cent per pound lower, at 156.2 and 158.875 cents, respectively (all figures […]

By Theopolis Waters