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U.S. livestock: Hogs up, cattle firm on hopes for Mexico deal

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub August 17, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog and cattle futures rose on Friday, boosted by hopes that a trade agreement with Mexico will be finalized in the coming days, traders said. Mexico’s economy minister Ildefonso Guajardo said on Friday he hopes to conclude by the middle of next week outstanding bilateral issues with the U.S. surrounding

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Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Hogs close limit up on hopes of export pick-up

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub August 16, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures rallied on Thursday, with most contracts closing at their daily trading limit, on hopes that exports to China will pick up after Washington and Beijing agreed to open trade negotiations, traders said. China and the U.S. will hold lower-level trade talks this month, the two governments said, offering

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soy climbs as U.S., China plan to restart trade talks

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek August 16, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures climbed to one-week highs on Thursday as plans for Beijing and Washington to hold fresh trade talks raised hopes for U.S. soy sales to China after being stalled by a tariff dispute. The rally in soybeans also helped wheat and corn futures rise, traders said, after China’s Ministry

China will be looking to other markets to fill its annual shortfall of 90 million tonnes of soybeans, a third of which the U.S. had traditionally supplied. Photo: Thinkstock

Markets, Other

China expects its U.S. agricultural imports to fall sharply

By GFM Network News, Yawen Chen August 10, 2018

Beijing | Reuters – China’s imports of U.S. agricultural products will fall sharply once Beijing implements retaliatory trade measures and the country is able to cover its demand for cooking oil and animal feed, vice agriculture minister Han Jun said on Friday. The trade dispute will have a limited impact on China’s agriculture sector, but hit its U.S. counterparts

Argentina plans to export major amounts of soymeal to China in 2019

By GFM Network News, Hugh Bronstein August 3, 2018

Beunos Aires | Reuters – Argentina expects to export significant amounts of soymeal to China starting after the next harvest in May, a top agriculture ministry official said on Friday, as the South American grains powerhouse moves to take advantage of U.S.-China trade strife. Argentine officials were in Beijing on Friday finalizing the paperwork needed to ship

China has proposed tariffs that would include LNG, semiconductors, beef, aircraft. Photo: Darwel/iStock/Getty Images

Livestock, Markets

China plans tariffs on $60 bln of U.S. goods in latest trade salvo

By GFM Network News August 3, 2018

Beijing | Singapore | Reuters – China proposed retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. goods ranging from liquefied natural gas (LNG) to some aircraft on Friday, as a senior Chinese diplomat cast doubt on prospects of talks with Washington to solve their bitter trade conflict. The Trump administration tightened pressure for trade concessions from

Hogs, Livestock

China reports 1st African swine fever outbreak, culls 1,000 hogs

By GFM Network News, Hallie Gu, Josephine Mason August 3, 2018

Beijing | Reuters – China reported its first outbreak of the deadly African swine fever (ASF) on Friday, as authorities in Liaoning province in the country’s northeast culled almost 1,000 hogs and rushed to control the highly contagious disease. News of the infection will stoke concern about its spread in the world’s largest pig herd, and possibly

A man works at a machine that prepares chicken eggs for hatching at the Huayu hatchery in Handan, Hebei province, China, June 25, 2018.

News, Poultry

A billion eggs a day

How China will transform its poultry sector in the coming years

By Dominique Patton August 1, 2018

Behind a row of sealed red incubator doors in a new facility in northern China, about 400,000 chicks are hatched every day, part of the rapidly modernizing supply chain in China’s US$37-billion egg industry, the world’s biggest. As China overhauls production of everything from pork to milk and vegetables, farmers raising hens for eggs are

Bunge wrongly bet that soybean prices would rise as U.S.-China trade tensions eased.

Bunge posts surprise loss on trade-related soy hedges

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume August 1, 2018

Chicago | Reuters – Global grains merchant Bunge Ltd reported a surprise quarterly loss on Wednesday as its agribusiness unit took a $125 million hit from soybean hedges tied to the trade dispute between the United States and China. Shares of the White Plains, New York-based company fell 2.9 percent in early trading to $67.10

Cereals, Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn and soy markets awaiting USDA report

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News August 1, 2018

CNS Canada – After a week where corn, soybean and wheat contracts climbed on the Chicago Board of Trade, traders are now awaiting the latest supply and demand report from the United States Department of Agriculture. “With the crop report (for) August, which at least over the last five years has historically leaned more bearish

Daily Network News

Russian grain ship believed sunk in Ukrainian drone attack found, towed to shore, TASS says

Striking JBS workers to return to Colorado plant on promise of talks

Canadian finance minister talks supply chain integrity, pork tariffs with Chinese vice premier

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