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USDA cuts world, U.S. corn stocks view as exports heat up

By Mark Weinraub March 10, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington | Reuters — U.S. and world corn supplies are projected to be smaller than expected by the end of the marketing year due to rising export demand, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Tuesday. The government also left its outlook for domestic soybean supplies unchanged and lowered U.S. wheat stocks by just one million […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Swollen U.S. meat inventories mirror strong demand headwinds

By Theopolis Waters February 20, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– Slumping demand for meat on the U.S. West and East Coasts boosted pork, beef and chicken inventories to some of their highest levels in years, analysts said following Friday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture monthly cold storage report. Meat processors and grocers normally stash hams in freezers before the Easter holiday and […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

West Coast port impasse beefs up U.S. meat stockpile

By Theopolis Waters February 19, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. meat exporters caught in the middle of the West Coast port labour standoff diverted millions of pounds of chilled pork and beef into cold storage facilities over the last few weeks, creating an oversupply of meat, analysts said. Redirected protein shipments come as frozen inventories are starting to build ahead […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

USDA sees reduced U.S. plantings of corn, soy, wheat in 2015-16

By Reuters February 19, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Washington | Reuters –– U.S. farmers will plant fewer acres of soybeans, corn, wheat and cotton in the 2015-16 marketing year in response to falling prices, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Thursday. At its annual Agricultural Outlook conference, USDA forecast lower prices for most major U.S. crops following bumper harvests in 2014-15. “Consecutive […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. pork production seen at record high in 2015, beef lower

By Reuters February 19, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Washington | Reuters –– U.S. meat and poultry production will rise to a record 95.13 million pounds in 2015, with gains in pork and poultry output more than offsetting a slight drop in beef production, the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast on Thursday. Total U.S. pork production was seen up 5.5 per cent at 24.09 […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

U.S. may lower cholesterol’s level of threat to health

By Reuters February 10, 2015

Reading Time: < 1 minute Washington | Reuters — A U.S. advisory panel reviewing national dietary guidelines has decided to drop its caution against eating cholesterol-laden food, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. At a December meeting, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee discussed its decision to no longer deem cholesterol a “nutrient of concern,” according to the Post. The last set […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn, soy rise on short-covering ahead of USDA report

By Michael Hirtzer February 9, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn and soybean futures edged higher on Monday, lifted by investor short-covering and position-squaring ahead of the monthly U.S. Department of Agriculture supply and demand report due on Tuesday. USDA said earlier that top soybean importer China purchased 120,000 tonnes of the grain within 24 hours, while analysts at AgRural […] Read more

General, Reuters

Obama proposes creation of stand-alone U.S. food safety agency

By Reuters February 2, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed bringing together the country’s food safety operations into one agency to better monitor food quality in a move that would reshape the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The proposal was put forward as part of the President’s 2016 budget plan. The new agency would combine the food […] Read more

Corn

The market is looking for corn acres

Corn Guide: It may seem like the bears are in control, but global corn demand is amazingly strong

By Philip Shaw February 2, 2015

Reading Time: 4 minutes We got here with our eyes wide open. Corn prices have been in a decline since August of 2012 when futures topped out at $8.49 per bushel. Now of course, we are all ready for the ride back up, and the question is how long this will take, and will corn prices in 2015 climb […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Aggressive herd expansion reverses shrinking U.S. cattle supply

By Theopolis Waters January 30, 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Affordable feed and record-high spikes in cattle prices in 2014 encouraged U.S. ranchers to increase their herds at a faster pace than previously expected during the past year, analysts said in response to a government yearly cattle report on Friday. Expansion efforts by producers helped turnaround the seven-year decline in the […] Read more

Daily Network News

Southern California honeybees show resistance to varroa mites

Pulse Weekly: SaskPulse optimistic despite input, crop price concerns

Canadian aquaculture should be classed as agriculture, industry groups say

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