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Livestock

U.S. avian flu outbreak of 2022 wipes out record number of birds

Vast majority of caseload originated with wild birds: USDA

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Chicago | Reuters — Avian flu has wiped out 50.54 million birds in the United States this year, making it the country’s deadliest outbreak in history, U.S. Department of Agriculture data showed Thursday. The deaths of chickens, turkeys and other birds represent the worst U.S. animal-health disaster to date, topping the previous record of 50.5
U.S. President Joe Biden tours a manufacturing lab at McHenry County College during a visit to northwest Chicago suburb Crystal Lake on July 7, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)
Crops

Biden says administration engaged in talks to avert U.S. railroad strike

CN's U.S. operations would be affected

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Nantucket | Reuters — U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that his administration was involved in negotiations to avert a looming U.S. railroad strike that could shut down supply chains across the country but added that he has not directly engaged on the matter yet. Speaking to reporters outside a fire station on Nantucket
Mexico not buying U.S. yellow corn as GM ban looms
Markets, News

Mexico not buying U.S. yellow corn as GM ban looms

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Mexico’s government cannot make purchases of yellow corn from the United States because it does not want genetically modified product, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Nov. 9, amid pressure from its top trade partner over the future of the imports. The United States wanted to sell Mexico more yellow corn and Mexico declined, Lopez
BNSF crews clear track near Lemmon, S.D., about 300 km northeast of Rapid City, in late December 2016. (BNSF.com)
Crops

Biggest U.S. rail union rejects tentative deal, raising threat of strike

Union digs in on paid sick time

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Washington/Los Angeles | Reuters — Workers at the largest U.S. rail union voted against a tentative contract deal reached in September, raising the possibility of a year-end strike that could cause significant damage to the U.S. economy and strand vital shipments of food and fuel. Train and engine service members of the transportation division of
File photo of Upside Foods’ chicken product. (Upsidefoods.com)
Livestock

Lab-grown meat cleared for human consumption by U.S. regulator

FDA's review not technically approval

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Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time cleared a meat product grown from animal cells for human consumption, the agency announced on Wednesday. Upside Foods, a company that makes cell-cultured chicken by harvesting cells from live animals and using the cells to grow meat in stainless-steel tanks,
File photo of a CN locomotive in Chicago. (Photo courtesy CN)
Crops

Third U.S. union rejects national rail contract deal

Two major unions' decisions due next week

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Washington | Reuters — A third U.S. rail union voted on Monday to reject a tentative national contract reached in September, but expects to continue negotiating to reach a deal. The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB), which represents about 300 U.S. rail employees, rejected the agreement, said the union and the National Carriers’ Conference Committee
A farmer spreads nitrogen in his wheat field in Blecourt, France, in May 2021.
News

U.S. nitrogen exports jump as Europe scrambles for fertilizer

Limited ability to backfill means there may be future “crisis of availability”

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Reuters – American exports of nitrogen fertilizers jumped to a multi-year high this summer after surging natural gas prices in Europe drove up costs of producing the crop nutrient there, making U.S. shipments more competitive. The brisk U.S. sales highlight the far-reaching effect of the war in Ukraine on global food and energy supplies. Russia,
Mycotoxins, such as vomitoxin, are produced primarily by Gibberella ear moulds (seen here) and can be disruptive when fed to livestock, especially hogs. Photo: OMAFRA
Crops

U.S. corn farmers wary of vomitoxin, latest stress on global grain supplies

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Chicago | Reuters – A fungus that causes “vomitoxin” has been found in some U.S. corn harvested this fall, causing headaches for growers and livestock producers and forcing ethanol plants and grain elevators to scrutinize grain deliveries. The situation is another hit to global grain supplies that have sunk to the lowest in a decade since Russia
Gary Millershaski, a farmer and scout on the Wheat Quality Council’s Kansas wheat tour, inspects winter wheat stunted by drought near Syracuse, Kansas, this past spring. Worries are already mounting there may be a repeat.
News, Weather

U.S. winter wheat farmers plant into dust

Analysts say despite historically high prices for time of year, acreage could fall

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Reuters – With planting roughly halfway complete, as of Oct. 17, the 2023 U.S. hard red winter wheat crop is already being hobbled by drought in the heart of the southern Plains, wheat experts said. Planting plans may be scaled back in the U.S. breadbasket despite historically high prices for this time of year, reflecting

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