Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rallied for the third day in a row on Wednesday to reach a nine-month high, drawing strength from data released earlier in the […] Read more
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U.S. grains: Soybeans up 1.1 per cent on supply woes; wheat, corn weak
Boosting West Coast exports seen key for moving bigger crops
Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada needs to invest in shipping more grains and oilseeds off the West Coast as harvests get larger, to avoid the massive transportation backlogs that followed […] Read more
Argentine port workers to strike over wages
Buenos Aires | Reuters — Port workers in Argentina’s Rosario grains hub will start an indefinite wage strike on Thursday, Edgardo Quiroga, head of the San Lorenzo chapter of the […] Read more
U.S. livestock: Pork price rebound rallies CME hogs
Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures on Wednesday settled higher after a choppy day of trading, supported by unexpectedly strong demand for pork at wholesale, traders said. […] Read more
Rise in farmland values most pronounced in Sask., Man., Que.
Farm Credit Canada’s annual charting of the ebb and flow of Canada’s farmland values saw price increases ahead of the curve in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec pushing nationwide values to […] Read more
Rising crop volumes pose stiff challenges for exports
Winnipeg | CNS Canada — New strategies are going to be needed if Canada’s grain, pulse and oilseed crop sectors want to meet growing global food demand. That was one […] Read more
ADM set to take full control of Toepfer
U.S. agrifood giant Archer Daniels Midland plans to buy the stake it doesn’t yet own in international grain trading house Toepfer International, and to forge ahead with the sale of […] Read more
PEDv seen pushing U.S. 2014 pork production down two per cent
Reuters — U.S. pork production is likely to decline about two per cent this year due to the spread of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), the U.S. Department of Agriculture said […] Read more
Sunflowers seen enjoying another strong season
CNS Canada — Stable prices, generally good growing conditions and a mediocre harvest in Argentina have industry officials smiling at the prospects for this season’s Prairie sunflower crop. In late […] Read more
Cargill expects flour merger with ConAgra finalized in six to eight weeks
Winnipeg | Reuters — U.S. agribusiness Cargill expects the merger of its flour mill operations with those of ConAgra Foods to be finalized in six to eight weeks after it […] Read more
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