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CBOT May 2019 soybeans with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Soybeans inch up on China purchases

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter March 7, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures inched upward on Thursday on news that Chinese state-owned firms bought at least 500,000 tonnes of U.S. soybeans, while wheat futures dropped to their lowest levels in more than a year on pressure from a strengthening dollar, traders said. Chinese state-owned firms bought the U.S. soybeans for shipment

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland told the Canadian Crops Convention March 6 the Canadian government is trying to restore Richardson International’s canola exports to China. (Allan Dawson photo)

Crops, Markets

Canada working to end China’s canola block, Freeland says

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News March 7, 2019

Montreal — The Canadian government is working hard to reopen Richardson International’s Canadian canola markets in China, says Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s minister of foreign affairs. “We’re working closely with Canadian farmers and Canadian industry,” Freeland said in a brief interview after speaking at the Canadian Crops Convention (CCC) here Wednesday. “Our embassy is very focused

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soy, corn, wheat sag as trade news awaited

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen March 7, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures fell roughly one per cent on Wednesday and wheat slipped nearly three per cent on sluggish export demand for U.S. grains and a lack of news on U.S.-Chinese trade negotiations, traders said. “The single biggest potential factor right now that could turn these market dynamics is

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Hogs dip from two-week high, await trade news

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume March 6, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures retreated on Wednesday after four straight sessions of gains in a technical and profit-taking setback from two-week highs as investors awaited new developments in U.S.-China trade negotiations. Cattle futures also fell broadly, although worries about a late-winter snowstorm forecast for the beef cattle-producing U.S. Plains underpinned the

ICE May 2019 canola with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

ICE weekly outlook: China worries keep market trending down

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin March 6, 2019

MarketsFarm — Canola futures on the ICE Futures U.S. platform dropped sharply during the week ended Wednesday, hitting their lowest levels in 2-1/2 years. Concerns over declining Chinese demand sparked the latest selloff in canola amid news that the major canola-buying country had blocked shipments from Canada’s Richardson International. Canadian canola exporters have faced problems

CBOT May 2019 soybeans, with May corn in orange. (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Fresh trade news would move markets

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 6, 2019

MarketsFarm — Fresh news out of U.S./China trade talks will move the soybean and corn markets in the near future, rather than USDA’s next world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE), according to an analyst following the Chicago Board of Trade. However, a lack of fresh news regarding those trade talks has become a problem

A rapeseed field in southern China’s Yunnan province. (YuenWu/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

Richardson disputes China claim of ‘hazardous pests’ in canola

By Ben Blanchard, GFM Network News, Tom Polansek March 6, 2019

Beijing/Chicago | Reuters — Canadian agribusiness Richardson International said on Wednesday that canola it shipped to China met regulatory requirements after a Chinese official charged that “hazardous pests” were found in samples taken recently from Canadian canola imports. Beijing this month cancelled Richardson’s registration to ship Canadian canola to China, the world’s top importer of

A beagle. (BPretorius/iStock/Getty Images)

Hogs, Livestock

U.S. to train more beagles to sniff out swine fever

By GFM Network News, Reuters March 6, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. government will increase the number of dogs used to sniff out illegal pork products at airports and seaports in an effort to keep out a contagious hog disease that has spread across Asia and Europe, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday. The disease, African swine fever, can

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Hog futures set two-week peak on pork price hopes

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek March 6, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures jumped to two-week highs on Tuesday amid hopes for increased pork prices, which have been under pressure from large supplies and weakened demand from China. Wholesale pork prices, known as the cutout, rose by $1.01 on Monday to $62.93/cwt for carcasses, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture

Canola Council of Canada president Jim Everson says China’s block on Canadian canola has now expanded beyond just shipments from Richardson International. (Co-operator file photo by Allan Dawson)

Crops, Markets

China’s block on canola seen as blowback from diplomatic spat

By Allan Dawson, GFM Network News March 5, 2019

Montreal — Canola industry leaders attending the first Canadian Crops Convention here this week say they don’t know why China has abruptly blocked imports of Canadian canola from Richardson International, Canada’s biggest grain company. But according to a senior Richardson official it’s in retaliation to the diplomatic spat between China and Canada over the arrest

Daily Network News

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U.S. grains: Soybeans inch up on China purchases

Canada working to end China’s canola block, Freeland says

U.S. grains: Soy, corn, wheat sag as trade news awaited

U.S. livestock: Hogs dip from two-week high, await trade news

ICE weekly outlook: China worries keep market trending down

CBOT weekly outlook: Fresh trade news would move markets

Richardson disputes China claim of ‘hazardous pests’ in canola

U.S. to train more beagles to sniff out swine fever

U.S. livestock: Hog futures set two-week peak on pork price hopes

China’s block on canola seen as blowback from diplomatic spat

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