Chicago | Reuters — For a second straight session most Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts finished in modest positive territory on Tuesday pegged to bear spreading and speculative buying, […] Read more
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U.S. livestock: CME live cattle again close mostly firm
U.S. grains: Soybeans rally as planting slows, crop concerns emerge
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures rose as much as 2.5 per cent on Tuesday, supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s cut to crop ratings […] Read more
TMX turning to cattle sales
Reuters — TMX Group, operator of Canada’s TSX stock exchange, hopes to rope a piece of the $90 billion North America cattle sector, and said Tuesday it would offer the […] Read more
Prairie wheat bids down with U.S. futures, rising loonie
CNS Canada — Cash bids for Canadian wheat dropped during the week ended Friday, as the combination of a rising Canadian dollar and dropping U.S. futures weighed on prices across […] Read more
U.S. grains: Weather view weighs on CBOT corn, wheat
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures sank 2.9 per cent on Monday, hitting a two-week low on expectations that drier conditions in the U.S. Plains will […] Read more
U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end mostly firm
Chicago | Reuters — Most Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts gained modestly on Monday, supported by short-covering and futures’ discounts to last week’s cash prices, traders said. Investors bought […] Read more
Rain sprinkles Prairie canola fields, pastures
Winnipeg | Reuters — Light rains sprinkled Western Canada’s crops and pastures during the weekend, but amounts fell well short of what’s needed to remedy dry conditions that have stunted […] Read more
Reactions mixed on U.S. biofuel policy role in Canadian market
CNS Canada — The climate of the Canadian renewable fuel market could shift when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalizes its new targets, some industry professionals say. Revised biofuel targets […] Read more
Prices to rise as yield prospects drop for durum
CNS Canada — Mounting dryness concerns in some of the prime durum-growing regions of Western Canada have likely already cut into yield prospects, which should support prices going forward. Canadian […] Read more
Quebec to halt ASRA for veal sector
Quebec’s farm finance and funding agency plans to remove the veal sector from the province’s ASRA income stabilization program starting next year. La Financiere agricole du Quebec (FADQ) announced Friday […] Read more
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