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A view near the Canadian end of the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Detroit and is considered one of North America’s busiest trade routes. (Steven_Kriemadis/iStock/Getty Images)

White House heeded pressure to reopen Canada border, U.S. lawmaker says

By GFM Network News October 13, 2021

Washington | Reuters — A U.S. congressman from New York said on Wednesday that political pressure had persuaded the White House to end a historic 19-month closure of its land borders with Canada and Mexico to millions of non-essential foreign visitors. Representative Brian Higgins, a Democrat representing a district along the Canadian border, said: “You

CBOT November 2021 soybeans (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, green and black lines). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybean futures extend losing streak

CBOT wheat firm, corn weak

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub October 4, 2021

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell for the third session in a row on Monday, sinking to their lowest in 9-1/2 months on continued pressure from a government report that showed domestic supplies were bigger than expected. Wheat firmed to its highest since mid-August on technical buying. Corn futures ended slightly lower after

File photo of a canola crop south of Ethelton, Sask. in 2019. (Dave Bedard photo)

Crops, Markets

Canada’s drought forces canola importers to turn elsewhere

'Importers...are going to be left out in the cold'

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel October 4, 2021

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canada’s smallest canola harvest in 13 years, resulting from severe drought, is forcing importers like Japan and Mexico to pay more or scour other countries for the yellow-flowering oilseed. With the scant available Canadian canola fetching high prices, customers of the world’s biggest canola exporter are leaning more heavily on smaller-producing

Crops

CP, Kansas City lock in new deal as CN steps out

More efficient flow of grain, perishables, machinery parts touted

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News September 15, 2021

Canadian Pacific Railway and U.S. railway Kansas City Southern on Wednesday again formalized their engagement after competing suitor Canadian National Railway walked away from the table. CP and KCS, which reported “unanimous” support from both companies’ boards, have entered a merger agreement committing CP to pay about $31 billion in cash and stock, or about

Hogs, News

Mexico agrees to resume pork shipments from Smithfield plant in U.S.

By Reuters August 23, 2021

Mexico is allowing a Smithfield Foods’ hog plant in North Carolina, the world’s biggest, to resume shipments of pork products after blocking it two months ago over quality concerns, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Smithfield’s plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, is allowed again to export pork to Mexico that was produced on

U.S. extends travel curbs at Canada, Mexico land borders

By GFM Network News August 20, 2021

Washington | Reuters –– The United States on Friday extended the closure of its land borders with Canada and Mexico to non-essential travel such as tourism through Sept. 21 despite Ottawa’s decision to open its border to vaccinated Americans. The latest 30-day extension by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) came after Canada said in

A Kansas City Southern (KCS) rail car at Toluca, Mexico on Oct. 1, 2018. (File photo: Reuters)/Edgard Garrido)

Crops

U.S. railway’s board sticks with CN’s bid

Kansas City Southern board spurns sweetened CP bid

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News August 19, 2021

The board of directors for a U.S. railway facing takeover bids from each of Canada’s big two railways is sticking with Canadian National Railway’s (CN) proposal. The board for Kansas City Southern (KCS), in a release Aug. 12, said it unanimously agrees an upgraded Aug. 10 cash-and-stock bid from Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) “does not

Hogs, News

Mexico blocks pork shipments from world’s biggest hog plant in U.S.

By Tom Polansek July 7, 2021

Reuters – Mexico blocked all shipments from the world’s largest pork plant in North Carolina due to concerns about the quality of hog skins from the Smithfield Foods facility, the company said June 21. The halt in shipments from the plant in Tar Heel, in eastern North Carolina, is a hit to the U.S. pork

Crops, Other

Mexican judge rejects industry bid to halt GMO corn, glyphosate ban

Farm council warns of lost productivity

By David Alire Garcia, GFM Network News May 25, 2021

Mexico City | Reuters — A Mexican federal judge ruled against a request by the National Farm Council to freeze a government plan to ban genetically modified (GMO) corn and the widely used herbicide glyphosate by 2024, the national science council said on Monday. Judge Martin Adolfo Santos Perez’s ruling allows the executive order issued

Markets, News

Mexico will miss corn output forecast, farmers’ group says

A direct cash payment program for farmers is panned as insufficient

By David Alire Garcia April 7, 2021

Reuters – Mexican corn production is likely to total no more than 24 million tonnes this year, significantly less than the government’s forecast, the head of one of the country’s largest corn farmer associations said in an interview. Juan Pablo Rojas told Reuters that the official estimate of nearly 27 million tonnes by the Agriculture

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: ‘Relentless’ fund selling knocks down CME cattle futures

U.S. grains: Soy futures slide as traders worry China may miss US buying target

Pulse Weekly: Steady prices, high production for chickpeas

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