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U.S. livestock: Closing higher after Trump announces tariff pause

But boosts duties on China to 125 per cent

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 9, 2025

Live and fed cattle futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange were stronger on Wednesday, after United States President Donald Trump announced he will pause his reciprocal tariffs for 90 days. Trump said the suspension of the levies comes as more than 75 countries were set to negotiate trade with the U.S. or had not taken

Markets

Even more corn in China, Brazil say attachés

Better Chinese yields, stronger Brazil prices

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 7, 2025

China and Brazil are to further solidify their positions as the world's number two and three corn producers, according to attache reports from the United States Department of Agriculture.

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Livestock, News

Bird Flu Update: Mass layoffs hit U.S. Food and Drug Administration

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm April 3, 2025

The reporting of avian influenza in the United States could become more difficult as a good many staff who were following the outbreak were fired by the Trump administration, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.

Organic growers have watched conventional crop prices rise over the past few months which has cut into their premiums. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

Markets, News

Less corn, more soybeans, wheat stocks says USDA report

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 31, 2025

As the trade expected, stocks of United States corn fell back compared to a year ago while those for soybeans and wheat came in higher. The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued its grains stocks as of March 1 report on Monday.

Cereals, Markets, News

More corn to be seeded, USDA forecasts

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 31, 2025

As expected, there's to be an increase in corn plantings this spring, the United States Department of Agriculture estimated in its prospective planting report released on March 31. As well, the USDA reduced soybean and all wheat plantings.

Markets

Brazil continuing to expand its soybeans

Attache calls for record output, exports

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 24, 2025

With Brazil's planted and harvest soybean area to expand by 900,000 hectares in 2026, the United States Department of Agriculture attaché; in Brasilia forecast production to increase 3.50 million tonnes at record 173 million.

News, Reuters

Trump administration aims to make faster meat processing permanent

Agency plans rulemaking to formalize speed increases

By Leah Douglas, Tom Polansek March 18, 2025

Chicago/Washington | Reuters – The Trump administration said on Mar. 17 that it plans to permanently allow U.S. poultry and pork processing plants to operate more quickly, raising concerns among advocacy groups about worker health and food safety. The U.S. Department of Agriculture decision is a victory for meat companies and industry associations such as the National Chicken

A soybean crop in Manitoba’s Interlake in 2022. Photo: Greg Berg

Cereals, Markets, News

U.S. wheat sees most notable changes in March S/D report

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm March 11, 2025

No change was the central theme to the March supply and demand report from the United States Department of Agriculture issued on March 11. In most categories of the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), the USDA kept the same data as in its February report.

File photo of the facade of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building in Washington, D.C. (Camrocker/iStock/Getty Images)

News, Reuters

American farmers put plans, investments on hold under Trump USDA spending freeze

By Leah Douglas, P.J. Huffstutter, Reuters, Tom Polansek March 10, 2025

Farmers and food organizations across the country are cutting staff, halting investments and missing key funding amid a USDA freeze on a broad swath of grants, more than two dozen farmers and agricultural support groups in seven states told Reuters.

Markets, Reuters

Global demand forecasts for US crops to factor in tariffs in effect, USDA says

By Reuters, Tom Polansek March 7, 2025

A monthly U.S. Department of Agriculture WASDE supply and demand report due next week will consider trade policies in place when the forecasts for grains and soybeans are issued, an agency official said on Thursday, as President Donald Trump suspended tariffs he imposed this week on Canada and Mexico.

U.S. grains: Soybean futures set two-week high on US weather worry, soyoil rally

Alberta Crop Report: Rains in the south, dryness in the north

Agriculture ministers agree to AgriStability changes

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybean futures set two-week high on US weather worry, soyoil rally

Alberta Crop Report: Rains in the south, dryness in the north

Agriculture ministers agree to AgriStability changes

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U.S. livestock: Closing higher after Trump announces tariff pause

Even more corn in China, Brazil say attachés

Bird Flu Update: Mass layoffs hit U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Less corn, more soybeans, wheat stocks says USDA report

More corn to be seeded, USDA forecasts

Brazil continuing to expand its soybeans

Trump administration aims to make faster meat processing permanent

U.S. wheat sees most notable changes in March S/D report

American farmers put plans, investments on hold under Trump USDA spending freeze

Global demand forecasts for US crops to factor in tariffs in effect, USDA says

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