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Aug. 6, 2014 at 4:04 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Wednesday closed firm, supported by their discounts to last week’s prices for market-ready or cash cattle, traders said. CME hogs also posted gains, helped by short-covering after brushing aside lower cash and wholesale prices, they said. The live cattle […]

By Theopolis Waters

Aug. 6, 2014 at 2:36 pm CDT

Moscow | Reuters –– Russia will impose “quite substantial” bans on imports of foods from the U.S. and EU and has already decided to suspend U.S. poultry imports as part of President Vladimir Putin’s order to prepare a list of food import bans, its veterinary service said. Putin signed a […]

Aug. 6, 2014 at 1:28 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has officially begun the review process of electronic trading hours in its cattle and hog contracts, it said Wednesday, to include scaling back hours to ease market volatility and keep the contracts attractive. Reducing activity on the exchange, the world’s biggest […]

Aug. 6, 2014 at 1:07 pm CDT

Geneva | Reuters — Ukraine has introduced emergency restrictions on the import of pigs from Canada, the U.S. and seven other countries, it said in documents filed at the World Trade Organization on Wednesday. Ukraine said porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) had been identified in Canada, China, Columbia, the Dominican Republic, […]

Aug. 6, 2014 at 12:17 pm CDT

Reuters/Staff — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a decree banning or limiting imports of agricultural products from countries which have imposed sanctions on Russia, the Kremlin’s press service said Wednesday. Putin ordered his government to come up with a list of goods to be banned for imports into Russia and […]