Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. corn futures fell from a six-week peak on Wednesday on profit-taking and technical selling after three sessions of gains as an expected record-large U.S. harvest weighed on the market.
U.S. grains: Corn slips from six-week high, soybeans down on China demand worries
Carney says he will take part in bid to resolve China canola dispute
Reading Time: < 1 minute Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday said he and other senior officials would work to resolve a dispute with China over tariffs that Beijing has imposed on canola.
U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slip on demand concerns as beef prices turn lower
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures dipped on Tuesday as gains fueled by tight cattle supplies and strong demand faded amid concerns that high beef prices and cooling weather could soon affect retail meat sales, analysts said.
U.S. grains: Soy drops on demand worries, corn firm as traders question lofty yield projections
Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. soybean futures fell to a 1-1/2 week low on Tuesday as China continued to shun purchases from the United States and as forecasts for improved rains in the coming days reinforced expectations for a sizeable Midwest harvest.
Louis Dreyfus buys oilseed assets from Bunge in Poland and Hungary
Reading Time: < 1 minute Louis Dreyfus Company has acquired grains and oilseeds processing, storage and trading activities in Hungary and Poland from rival agricultural commodity merchant Bunge Global, fulfilling conditions Bunge needed to meet to get approval of its merger with Viterra.
World’s first gene-edited horses are shaking up the genteel sport of polo
Argentine polo authorities balk at arrival of gene-edited horses
Reading Time: 5 minutes Kheiron Biotech, an Argentine company, has bred gene-edited polo ponies and says gene-editing has the potential to revolutionize horse breeding.
U.S. grains: Corn rises on strong demand, disease concerns
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago Board of Trade corn futures firmed on Friday on support from strong international demand, concerns over disease in the U.S. Midwest and technical support, analysts said.
China boosts soybean buys from Argentina, Uruguay amid U.S. trade war, sources say
China has yet to book US soybean imports for fourth quarter
Reading Time: 2 minutes China's soybean importers are boosting purchases from Argentina and Uruguay over the next year to fill the supply gap left by the absence of U.S. shipments as the trade war drags on.
U.S. grains: Soybeans pressured by lack of Chinese demand; corn rises on export sales
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago soybean futures came under pressure on Thursday on a lack of Chinese demand for the U.S. oilseed while corn futures ticked higher on strong export sales data, analysts said.
U.S. livestock: Cattle futures sink on technical selling
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures fell on Thursday on technical selling after live and feeder cattle futures hit contract highs in the previous day.