Reading Time: 3 minutes Australia and New Zealand are bracing for the arrival of a destructive bird flu strain by tightening biosecurity at farms, testing shore birds for disease, vaccinating vulnerable species and war-gaming response plans.
Australia, New Zealand brace for looming bird flu threat
U.S. livestock: Lean hogs and cattle continue rally
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog and cattle futures rose on Tuesday as wholesale cutout values remained strong amid a largely positive economic picture, analysts said.
U.S. grains: Soy, corn end lower on harvest pressure, expected Brazil rain
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago soybean and corn futures settled lower on Tuesday as brisk U.S. harvest progress and forecasts for rain in drought-hit Brazilian crop belts bolstered expectations of abundant global supplies, traders said.
EU deforestation law delay brings losses to most vigilant companies
Reading Time: 2 minutes Companies that have paid to source agricultural produce that complies with the European Union's anti-deforestation law would lose out if the EU decides to delay implementing the legislation by a year, industry groups and traders said.
Higher biodiesel mandates in Indonesia to curb palm oil supplies, analyst says
Decrease in available palm oil would be ‘catastrophic’ for global consumers, analyst says
Reading Time: 2 minutes Implementation of higher biodiesel mandates in Indonesia, the world's biggest palm oil producer, is likely to tighten supplies of the vegetable oil, a leading industry analyst said on Tuesday. Indonesia currently has a mandatory 35 per cent blend of palm oil-based fuel in biodiesel and is seeking to ramp up to biodiesel containing 40 per cent palm oil to cut its energy imports.
Canada posts sixth straight monthly trade deficit in August
Farm, fishing and intermediate food product exports rose
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada recorded a bigger-than-expected trade deficit of C$1.1 billion in August, its sixth consecutive monthly shortfall, as imports rose while exports declined, Statistics Canada data showed on Tuesday.
U.S. Grains: Soybeans ease on South American rain outlook; grain higher
Reading Time: 2 minutes Soybean futures eased on Monday on forecasts for rain in dry areas of top exporter Brazil and Argentina and on rising United States supplies as clear Midwest weather boosted harvesting.
Russia says grain harvest hit by Ukraine war, bad weather
Reading Time: 2 minutes Russia's grain harvest will be hit by the impact of Ukraine's attacks on grain-producing regions close to the border and by bad weather in many other regions.
U.S. Grains: CBOT wheat, soy and corn fall as dollar rallies
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago wheat dropped for a second day on Friday, moving further from a 3-1/2 month high reached this week as a stronger dollar made U.S. exports look less attractive.
River level at Amazon rainforest port hits 122-year low amid drought
Grain exports and essential supplies affected
Reading Time: 2 minutes The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of grain exports and essential supplies that are the region's lifeline.
A message from April Stewart, Country Guide's Associate Editor
