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Millers, bakers fret as drought withers North America’s spring wheat

Aug. 5, 2021 at 9:00 am CDT

Reuters – Millers and bakers are draining wheat reserves and paying more for spring wheat used in baking, as drought shrivels crops across the Canadian Prairies and northern U.S. Plains that produce more than half of the world’s supply. U.S. and Canadian farmers are bracing for a sharply smaller spring […]

Dominican Republic to kill thousands of pigs over swine fever outbreak

Aug. 3, 2021 at 5:14 pm CDT

By Ezequiel Abiu Lopez

Meatpacker Tyson Foods mandates Covid vaccines for workers

Aug. 3, 2021 at 9:10 am CDT

By Aishwarya Venugopal

Cargill to reopen Guelph beef plant after coronavirus outbreak

Dec. 23, 2020 at 12:16 pm CST

By Aakriti Bhalla Rod Nickel

Big changes unlikely in next USDA report

Sep. 9, 2019 at 7:37 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Bayer cancels plans to sell U.S. crop product in 2020 over safety concerns

Jul. 30, 2019 at 2:39 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – Bayer AG has scrapped plans for wide sales next year of a chemical that is intended to protect U.S. crops from yield-robbing worms, citing ongoing safety concerns. The decision is the latest setback for Germany-based Bayer following its acquisition of Monsanto for $63 billion in 2018. Bayer is separately battling thousands […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Futures rally on choppy grains, hopes for Chinese buying spree

Jul. 23, 2019 at 3:37 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live hog futures rallied on Tuesday, as competition among packers for spot delivery grew and animal weights slipped after the recent U.S. heat wave, traders said. Live cattle futures also inched up, supported in part by choppy trading in U.S. grain futures […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

China culls 200,000 pigs due to African swine fever – official

Oct. 19, 2018 at 10:51 am CDT

China | Reuters – China, the world’s top pork producer, has culled 200,000 pigs so far following outbreaks of highly contagious African swine fever in the country, a Chinese animal health official said on Friday. While that represents only a tiny portion of the nearly 700 million pigs slaughtered in China each year […]

By Dominique Patton

[VIDEO] Chicken poo power as an alternative to coal?

Jan. 3, 2018 at 12:59 pm CST

Israeli researchers have developed a way to mimic coal formation by heating wet chicken waste, potentially providing an alternative energy source to that fossil fuel and find a use for growing amounts of waste from poultry. – Amy Pollock reports for Reuters.

By Reuters

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