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Sonny Perdue with wife Mary during a rain prayer service in 2007. (SonnyPerdue.Georgia.gov)

Trump to name ex-Georgia governor as ag secretary

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 19, 2017

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will name former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue as his nominee for secretary of agriculture on Thursday, a senior transition official saidn Wednesday. Perdue, 70, served on Trump’s agricultural advisory committee during his presidential campaign. His nomination, which must be confirmed by the Republican-led Senate, will complete Trump’s

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle up for third straight day

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters January 19, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed higher on Wednesday for a third day in a row, following the morning’s wholesale beef price upswing and initial cash price strength, traders said. February live cattle closed 0.7 cent/lb. higher at 120.275 cents, and April closed up 0.4 cent to 119.4 cents (all

Crops, Markets

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn can’t keep their distance from Argentina

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin January 18, 2017

CNS Canada — Soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade posted sharp gains over the past week, as weather concerns in Argentina and a bullish U.S. Department of Agriculture report sparked a rally. South American weather also underpinned the corn market — and both commodities will be following the forecasts out of the region

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soybeans extend rally

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub January 13, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures rose on Friday on follow-through buying on the U.S. Agriculture Department’s surprise cut to its domestic production estimate and ending stocks on Thursday, traders said. Soymeal led soybeans higher on concerns that forecasts for more rain in Argentina could limit the size of the soybean crop in the

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle ease on technical selling

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer January 13, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures fell more than one per cent on Thursday, extending losses to the second straight session on a technical sell-off as wholesale beef prices also continued to lose ground, traders and analysts said. Lean hogs were mixed at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, with some front-month hog futures contracts rising

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Soy up as USDA lowers crop, stocks estimates

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen January 12, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures hit a 3-1/2-week high on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut its estimate of the 2016 soy harvest and lowered its forecast of domestic inventories, analysts said. Wheat futures advanced after the USDA said farmers planted the fewest U.S. acres to winter wheat since 1909. Corn

Crops

As Trump meets biotech CEOs, farm advisers fret over empty USDA spot

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter, Tom Polansek January 12, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has left the agriculture secretary as the last department head to be named to his cabinet, while a meeting with the chief executives of two agribusiness giants gave a hint at a roster of farm issues the incoming president will face. Trump met on Wednesday with the

Crops

U.S. farmers cut winter wheat acres to 108-year low

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub January 12, 2017

Washington | Reuters — U.S. farmers slashed their winter wheat plantings to the lowest in more than a century as supplies of the grain ballooned to a 29-year high, the U.S. Agriculture Department said Thursday. USDA also dialed back its harvest estimates for the U.S. soybean and corn crops but 2016-17 marketing year production of

Crops, Markets

U.S. grains: Wheat hits one-week low on Plains forecasts

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen January 11, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat futures fell nearly two per cent on Wednesday on forecasts for much-needed moisture in the southern Plains, analysts said. Corn and soybean futures also declined as traders adjusted positions ahead of key crop data due on Thursday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Chicago Board of Trade March wheat

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking, beef quotes drop CME live cattle

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters January 11, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures were pressured on Wednesday by profit-taking, partly in response to sharply lower wholesale beef values, said traders. February live cattle closed 0.4 cent/lb. lower at 119.125 cents (all figures US$). CME live cattle will return to its normal three-cent trading limit on Thursday after failing

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle rebound on technical buying

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall as rapid harvest overshadows China trade hopes

Good weather pushes Alberta harvest along

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Trump to name ex-Georgia governor as ag secretary

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle up for third straight day

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn can’t keep their distance from Argentina

U.S. grains: Soybeans extend rally

U.S. livestock: Cattle ease on technical selling

U.S. grains: Soy up as USDA lowers crop, stocks estimates

As Trump meets biotech CEOs, farm advisers fret over empty USDA spot

U.S. farmers cut winter wheat acres to 108-year low

U.S. grains: Wheat hits one-week low on Plains forecasts

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking, beef quotes drop CME live cattle

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