Insights and Stories on Exports

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs, live cattle end higher

Apr. 11, 2022 at 8:10 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Lean hog futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange inched higher on Monday as technical buying and worries about tightening U.S. hog supplies offset fears of slowing pork export demand and softening cash hog prices, traders said. CME benchmark June lean hogs settled up 0.45 cent at […]

Record wheat crop, high stocks to help India meet rising export demand

Apr. 11, 2022 at 6:51 pm CDT

By Mayank Bhardwaj rajendra-jadhav

U.S. grains: Chicago wheat firmer on U.S. crop conditions’ decline

Apr. 5, 2022 at 6:38 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. livestock: CME cattle ease, seasonal high possible

Apr. 5, 2022 at 6:23 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

London marine insurers label all Russian waters high risk

Apr. 4, 2022 at 8:08 pm CDT

By Jonathan Saul

U.S. grains: Ukrainian export woes support markets

Apr. 4, 2022 at 7:30 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat, soybean and corn climbed on Monday, underpinned by disrupted supplies of Black Sea grains as the conflict in Ukraine continues, while attention shifts to U.S. production. Chicago Board of Trade most-active wheat ended 25-3/4 cents higher at $10.10-1/4 a bushel (all figures US$). Soybeans […]

By Christopher Walljasper

P.E.I. table stock potato exports to U.S. now allowed

Apr. 2, 2022 at 12:40 am CDT

Exports of Prince Edward Island table stock potatoes are again officially allowed to enter the mainland United States, after new U.S. entry rules regarding potato wart were published Friday. Canada’s federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said on Twitter that officials with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) are now preparing […]

By Dave Bedard

Putin ally warns agriculture supplies could be limited to ‘friends’

Apr. 1, 2022 at 8:29 pm CDT

Reuters — One of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s allies warned on Friday that Russia, a major global wheat exporter, could limit supplies of agriculture products to “friendly” countries only, amid Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis. Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012 and […]

By Reuters

Egyptian delegation to visit India to discuss wheat imports

Mar. 29, 2022 at 5:05 pm CDT

New Delhi | Reuters — A delegation from Egypt will visit India in the first week of April to facilitate wheat imports as part of efforts to secure supplies and tide over shortages at one of the world’s biggest importers of the staple, Indian government sources said. Egypt, often the […]

By Mayank Bhardwaj

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn fall on ceasefire hopes

Mar. 29, 2022 at 4:41 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell four per cent and corn fell nearly three per cent on Tuesday as comments by Russia and Ukraine following negotiations in Turkey raised hopes of a ceasefire in a conflict that has disrupted massive grain exports through the Black Sea region. However, […]

By Julie Ingwersen