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Trade rows spell gain, and pain, for U.S. grain exporters

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume, P.J. Huffstutter May 3, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Global grain marketers have seized upon trade tensions between the United States and several of its top export markets, including China, to turn around struggling trading units following one of the toughest years ever for the industry. After five years of bumper harvests worldwide that depressed crop prices, trading margins are

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Limited upside seen for U.S. soybeans

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News May 2, 2018

CNS Canada — It’s a fluid set of circumstances for the U.S. soybean market these days as U.S. negotiators head to China in a bid to get proposed tariffs lowered on U.S. imports — but the potential for any major rally appears limited. “I would say the beans have a more limited upside than the

Emergence in an Ontario soybean field. (File photo by John Greig)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop on bleak export view

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub May 2, 2018

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. soybean futures fell on Wednesday on concerns about decreased export demand from China as well as rising expectations for a bumper crop in Brazil, traders said. Wheat futures were mixed. Soft red winter wheat offerings eased after a rally on Tuesday while hard red winter wheat contracts rose due to

A farmer checks his soybean crop in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.

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The ‘breadbasket’ of the tropics?

Brazil’s tropical grain growers are upending the conventional wisdom on grain production

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 30, 2018

One of your major grain-growing competitors has been turning the world on its ear by producing grain in a tropical locale. Historically the tropics have been among the poorest regions, with the lowest agriculture productivity and highest incidents of malnutrition. It wasn’t until the late-1990s the tropics began to emerge as a possible region for

(Mark Wilson photo courtesy Louis Dreyfus Co.)

Crops, Markets

U.S.-China trade fears halt soybean imports

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News, Naveen Thukral April 26, 2018

Singapore/Beijing | Reuters — China’s purchases of U.S. soybeans have come to a grinding halt, trade and industry sources say, as fears of further action by Beijing to curb imports of U.S. crops following last week’s anti-dumping move on sorghum rattles the agriculture industry. Buyers from China, which takes 60 per cent of soybeans traded

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: CBOT soybeans extend losing streak

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub April 23, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell for a third straight session on Monday, with concerns about demand from China in focus amid a lack of fresh deals with the top global buyer of the oilseed, traders said. Wheat futures were mixed, with Chicago Board of Trade soft red winter wheat contracts retreating from

Beef cattle, Livestock

Marfrig to buy control of U.S.-based National Beef

By Ana Mano, GFM Network News April 9, 2018

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil’s Marfrig Global Foods said Monday it would buy control of Kansas City-based National Beef Packing for US$969 million, in a deal that would make it the world’s No. 2 beef processor. Marfrig also said it was seeking to sell an existing U.S. unit, Keystone Food. The proceeds will be

A coffee planter shows his coffee plantation in a farm in Sao Desiderio, Bahia state, Brazil on March 21. (Photo: Reuters/Roberto Samora)

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Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

By GFM Network News, Roberto Samora March 27, 2018

Luis Eduardo Magalhaes, Brazil | Reuters –– Farmers tending vast, flat soy and cotton fields that spread as far as the eye can see in northeastern Brazil are finding that coffee crops might provide higher profits in the country’s agricultural frontier. More coffee farms are being developed in the western part of Bahia state, which

A truck lines up to be loaded with soybeans in a farm in the city of Primavera do Leste in the central Brazilian state of  Mato Grosso.

International news, News

Corn as cash: Brazil’s bartering farmers raise risks for Canada’s Nutrien

Lack of credit makes for an interesting and unfamiliar business environment in this Latin American powerhouse

By Ana Mano, Rod Nickel March 26, 2018

Taking a page from its aggressive growth strategy in the United States, cash-rich Canadian fertilizer giant Nutrien plans to plow investment into Brazil in a bid to reap up to 30 per cent of farm supply sales in fertile pockets of the country. But business in Brazil’s farm sector — the world’s fastest growing —

Aviation firms report Brazil’s use of crop dusters to be rising at a rate of three per cent per year. (Embraer video screengrab via YouTube)

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Brazil cracking down on unmonitored agriculture planes

By GFM Network News March 20, 2018

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazilian federal prosecutors have demanded civil aviation authorities change regulations to increase oversight of agriculture airplanes such as crop dusters, which they claim can be used to smuggle drugs and agro-chemicals. Prosecutors are calling for the mandatory introduction of a transponder equipment to monitor such planes, and have suggested new

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans mixed on doubts over Chinese demand

Tyson Foods to close U.S. beef plant as cattle supplies dwindle

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures dip as Brazilian beef tariffs lifted

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Trade rows spell gain, and pain, for U.S. grain exporters

CBOT weekly outlook: Limited upside seen for U.S. soybeans

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop on bleak export view

The ‘breadbasket’ of the tropics?

U.S.-China trade fears halt soybean imports

U.S. grains: CBOT soybeans extend losing streak

Marfrig to buy control of U.S.-based National Beef

Coffee may profit more than soy in Brazil’s new farming frontier

Corn as cash: Brazil’s bartering farmers raise risks for Canada’s Nutrien

Brazil cracking down on unmonitored agriculture planes

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