Insights and Stories on Texas

Aug. 26, 2020 at 2:10 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Hurricane Laura, currently a Category 3 hurricane, is expected to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast late Wednesday or early Thursday but the Chicago Board of Trade is already feeling its effects. “It’s going to bring widespread rain and flooding to the Delta region, where unharvested rice, corn and […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Sep. 1, 2017 at 9:03 pm CDT

Mexico City | Reuters — Global commodities trader Cargill does not expect a significant impact on freight costs or logistics from the massive flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana, its top executive said Friday. Cargill CEO David MacLennan said while it was still too early to assess […]

By David Alire Garcia

Aug. 29, 2017 at 6:32 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — South Texas ranchers are scrambling to relocate cattle from massive flooding spawned by Tropical Storm Harvey, with many hauling livestock up to the north of the state while others rush to move the animals to higher ground nearby. About 1.2 million cattle are located in a […]

By Karl Plume, Theopolis Waters

Aug. 28, 2017 at 7:08 pm CDT

Houston | Reuters — U.S. fuel prices surged on Monday as two more Gulf Coast refiners cut output and a third considered reductions, leaving more than 13 per cent of the country’s refining capacity offline after Tropical Storm Harvey flooded plants and shut seaports. The storm swung back over the […]

By Erwin Seba

Mar. 9, 2017 at 6:54 pm CST

Austin | Reuters — Fast-moving wildfires that burned through nearly two million acres of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas this week have devastated ranches and left thousands of cattle and other livestock dead, officials said Thursday. Many of the grass fires grew rapidly on Monday due to dry weather and parched […]

By Jon Herskovitz