Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle fell for a seventh straight session on Wednesday as funds liquidated positions in association with their yearly rebalancing of commodities, traders […] Read more
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U.S. livestock: Active fund selloff extends CME live cattle losses
U.S. grains: Corn falls to five-week low on big ethanol supply, technicals
Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn fell one per cent on Wednesday, extending declines from the past two sessions to the largest in 1-1/2 years on pressure from chart-based selling […] Read more
Brazil says key soy road won’t be paved until 2016
Brasilia | Reuters –– An important road for soy and corn shipments linking to ports in northern Brazil will not be paved until 2016, the country’s transport minister said on […] Read more
Russia seen adding new informal grain export curbs in 2015
Moscow | Reuters — Russia has strengthened informal curbs on grain exports since the start of the year, further complicating trading before the introduction of an export tax, a Russian […] Read more
U.S. shippers say West Coast ports near gridlock on stalled contract talks
San Francisco | Reuters — Cargo traffic at several of the biggest U.S. West Coast ports has slowed to near gridlock, negotiators for shipping lines and terminal operators for 29 […] Read more
Canola cash market lagging strength in ICE futures
CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola futures have strengthened recently, but the western Canadian cash market for canola hasn’t followed along. Farmers “keep telling me that the futures go […] Read more
U.S. grains: Corn down most since June
Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn tumbled the most since June and soybean futures extended declines to a one-month low on Tuesday as plentiful global stockpiles triggered massive liquidation of […] Read more
U.S. livestock: CME live cattle tumble on more fund liquidation
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle posted heavy losses on Tuesday after funds kept selling February long contracts while simultaneously rolling them into back months, traders said. […] Read more
Food issues won’t block EU-U.S. trade deal, German minister says
Berlin | Reuters — Disagreements about food safety and farming are not likely to stand in the way of a free-trade agreement between the European Union and the U.S., Germany’s […] Read more
St. Lawrence floated ‘blowout’ grain volumes in ’14
Having shut its locks for the season on New Year’s Day, the operators of Canada’s St. Lawrence Seaway system report moving a “blowout volume” of grain during the 280-day 2014 […] Read more
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