Reading Time: 1 minute Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cattle futures turned higher on Tuesday on technical trading and market anticipation that packers increase buying on a shortened holiday week, analysts said.
U.S. livestock: Cattle futures turn higher on packer buying expectations
Nutrien idles three blenders in Brazil ‘indefinitely’
Reading Time: < 1 minute Nutrien Ltd, the world's largest producer of potash fertilizer, confirmed on Tuesday that it is indefinitely halting three blenders in Brazil, where it is trying to navigate difficult market conditions.
Dutch government plans to vaccinate poultry against bird flu
Two vaccines have proved effective in in research but haven't been tried on-farm
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bird flu vaccines for laying hens are effective in practice, the Dutch government said on Tuesday, while confirming plans to vaccinate poultry against the virus.
U.S. livestock: Live cattle mixed, feeder cattle lower ahead of holiday weekend
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures ended mixed on Friday, amid growing uncertainty over packer interest after the U.S. Memorial Day holiday weekend, traders said.
U.S. grains: Wheat rises 7 per cent this week on Russia crop worries
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures closed nearly flat on Friday but rose seven per cent for the week as concerns grew over crop losses in Russia and other exporting countries.
Raw milk containing bird flu virus infects mice in study
Reading Time: 2 minutes Feeding raw milk contaminated with bird flu to mice infected them with the virus, adding to evidence that consumption of unpasteurized milk is not safe for humans, according to a study published on Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Bird flu detected in tissue samples of US dairy cow sent to slaughter, USDA says
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bird flu virus particles were found in tissue samples taken from one dairy cow sent to slaughter at a U.S. meat processing plant, but none were detected in samples from 95 other cattle, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Friday.
U.S. committee passes farm bill draft with little support from Democrats
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee passed its version of a $1.5 trillion farm spending bill late Thursday night with few Democratic votes, prolonging a standoff between the parties over key nutrition, agriculture, and climate policies.
U.S. grains: Wheat ends up on Black Sea crop worries, but rally seen losing steam
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures extended gains on Thursday after reaching a 10-month peak a day earlier, as lingering dryness and worries over the Black Sea crop continued to underpin the market.
U.S. livestock: Lean hogs hit three-month low on weaker cash prices
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures slumped to a February low on Thursday under pressure from solid U.S. production and weaker cash prices, traders said.
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