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An eight-year-old handler walks her best-in-class York Barrow pig on June 4, 2014 at World Pork Expo in Des Moines. (File photo: Reuters/Lane Hickenbottom)
Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

World Pork Expo cancelled over swine fever fears

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. pork industry canceled its annual convention on Wednesday over concerns that international attendees could bring in an incurable hog disease at a time when U.S. farmers are already suffering from trade wars. The decision to scrap the World Pork Expo, held by the National Pork Producers Council in Des […] Read more
U.S. livestock: CME hogs limit down, retreating from last week’s top
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs limit down, retreating from last week’s top

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Most months of Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures closed down the daily three-cent trading limit on Tuesday on softening cash markets and profit-taking following contract highs set last week, analysts said. “The cash market has slowed down. It was down a little yesterday and the carcass values were weaker this […] Read more
CBOT May 2019 wheat with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat pressured by ample global stockpiles

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell to a one-week low on Tuesday, pressured by improving U.S. yield prospects and rising global stockpiles, analysts said, while nearby U.S. corn and soybean futures finished unchanged. Chicago Board of Trade May wheat settled down 5-3/4 cents at $4.59-1/2 per bushel after dipping to a one-week low […] Read more
Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland attends a news conference on media freedom as part of the G7 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Dinard, France on April 5, 2019. (File photo: Reuters/Stephane Mahe)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

Canada looks at fresh tariffs on U.S. goods

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Ottawa | Reuters — Canada is looking at ways to boost the effectiveness of its retaliatory tariffs against the United States, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday, but did not address remarks by a senior official who revealed what Ottawa might do. Canada imposed tariffs on $16.6 billion worth of U.S. exports in May […] Read more
U.S. livestock: CME hogs lower as rally pauses
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs lower as rally pauses

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures closed mostly lower on Monday as softening cash hog prices sparked a round of profit-taking after Friday’s contract highs, traders said. “Cash prices stopped moving higher at a rapid clip, so everyone is taking a step back,” said Altin Kalo, agricultural economist for New Hampshire-based […] Read more
The AltEn ethanol plant at Mead, Neb. on March 21, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Humeyra Pamuk)
Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters, Weather

Midwest floods hammer U.S. ethanol industry

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Reading Time: 3 minutes New York | Reuters — The March floods that punished the U.S. Midwest have roiled the ethanol industry, hammering prices and trapping barrels in the country’s interior while the U.S. coasts suffer from shortages of the biofuel. The historic March floods have dealt a series of blows to large swaths of an ethanol industry that […] Read more
File photo of a tobacco crop in Zimbabwe. (Munya Chawora/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Reuters

Zimbabwe to start paying white farmers compensation after April

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Harare | Reuters — Zimbabwe is to start paying compensation this year to thousands of white farmers who lost land under former president Robert Mugabe’s land reform nearly two decades ago, the government said, as it seeks to bring closure to a highly divisive issue. Two decades ago Mugabe’s government carried out at times violent […] Read more
CBOT May 2019 corn, with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)
Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn ends lower ahead of USDA monthly data

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures declined on Monday as traders adjusted positions a day ahead of a monthly supply-and-demand report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in which the government is expected to raise its forecast of U.S. corn ending stocks. Wheat also fell, while soybeans ended nearly unchanged after a choppy session. […] Read more

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