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U.S. grains: Corn, wheat rebound on technicals, dollar declines

By Michael Hirtzer April 29, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grains jumped as much as one per cent on Wednesday, with corn rebounding from a six-month low and wheat from a nearly five-year low on support from short covering and a weaker U.S. dollar. Soybeans also gained at the Chicago Board of Trade, buoyed by a strike of boat captains […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets

Saudi Arabia bans Ont. poultry, egg products

By Reuters April 29, 2015

Reuters — Saudi Arabia, the world’s second-largest importer of chicken broiler meat, has banned imports of poultry meat and egg products from Ontario due to the presence of avian flu on three Ontario farms. The market was worth about $825,000 in 2014, representing 0.4 per cent of Ontario’s poultry exports, said Patrick Girard, spokesman for […] Read more

Livestock

Third Ont. farm with avian flu cleared of birds

By Farmtario Staff April 28, 2015

Updated, April 29, 2015 — Ontario is urging poultry farmers to look into the AgriStability income stabilization plan, after the province’s third poultry farm to catch H5N2 avian flu this month has put down all its turkeys. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed Monday that “humane depopulation” has already been completed at the Bright, Ont. […] Read more

Livestock, Markets

U.S. asks China to drop avian flu-related ban on poultry imports

By Tom Polansek April 27, 2015

Washington | Reuters — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday asked China to drop a ban on imports of U.S. poultry imposed because of an outbreak of bird flu in chickens and turkeys. The U.S. wants China to limit trade only from states or regions that have had cases of the flu, which is […] Read more

Livestock

Tests turn up avian flu at third Ont. poultry farm

By Farmtario Staff April 24, 2015

Already under preventive quarantine, a turkey farm in southwestern Ontario’s Oxford County is now believed to have the province’s third avian flu outbreak in poultry. On its website Friday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it was notified Thursday that presumptive H5 avian flu had been detected at the farm in tests by the University […] Read more

Livestock

Minnesota declares state of emergency over avian flu

By P.J. Huffstutter April 23, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Minnesota declared a state of emergency on Thursday over a fast-spreading strain of avian flu that has led to the extermination of more than 7.3 million birds in the country. It followed Wisconsin’s action on Monday. The highly pathogenic H5N2 strain of bird flu has been identified on 46 Minnesota farms […] Read more

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans up on trucker strike worry

By Karl Plume April 23, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures snapped two sessions of declines and climbed to the highest in 2-1/2 weeks on concerns that labour strikes in South America could limit supplies to ports during the peak export season in Brazil and Argentina. Truckers in Brazil began to block roads across the country’s main farm belt […] Read more

Livestock, Markets

Second avian flu control zone set up in SW Ontario

By Farmtario Staff April 22, 2015

A federal control zone has been officially set up for a 10-kilometre radius around the Oxford County chicken farm that’s home to Ontario’s second outbreak of H5N2 avian flu. This control zone, which covers ground in both Oxford County and Waterloo County, is an “internationally accepted practice,” meant to allow export business to continue from non-infected […] Read more

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Corn touches one-month low, soy slips on bird flu concern

By Karl Plume April 22, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn futures touched a one-month low on Wednesday and soybeans dropped on concern that a bird flu outbreak in the U.S. may cut feed demand, as forecasts for favourable U.S. planting weather in coming weeks also weighed on prices. Wheat was slightly lower as early short covering support faded in […] Read more

Livestock, Markets

U.S. could use vaccines being developed to fight bird flu in poultry

By P.J. Huffstutter, Tom Polansek April 22, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Faced with a deadly bird flu outbreak that has infected millions of chickens and turkeys, the U.S. Agriculture Department could turn to what it has always seen as a last resort: readying and deploying a vaccine to fight the disease. Up to now, USDA has said it would prefer not to […] Read more

Tag Archives avian flu — page 12

U.S. grains: Corn, wheat rebound on technicals, dollar declines

Saudi Arabia bans Ont. poultry, egg products

Third Ont. farm with avian flu cleared of birds

U.S. asks China to drop avian flu-related ban on poultry imports

Tests turn up avian flu at third Ont. poultry farm

Minnesota declares state of emergency over avian flu

U.S. grains: Soybeans up on trucker strike worry

Second avian flu control zone set up in SW Ontario

U.S. grains: Corn touches one-month low, soy slips on bird flu concern

U.S. could use vaccines being developed to fight bird flu in poultry

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