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Australian countryside near Bendigo, northwest of Melbourne. (CIA.gov)

Beef makes the cut as Australia, China move to boost trade

By GFM Network News March 23, 2017

Sydney | Reuters — Australia and China are expected to sign new bilateral agreements on beef exports, energy and security during a four-day visit by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang that began on Thursday. Li, the first sitting Chinese premier to visit Australia in 11 years, was welcomed to parliament in Canberra by Prime Minister Malcolm […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Brazil beef scandal leaves fewer options for global buyers

By GFM Network News March 20, 2017

Chicago | Reuters –– Global beef buyers will likely need to cobble together supplies from several nations if a scandal persists in Brazil’s meat sector because supply constraints and politics are already limiting trade flows, market analysts said Monday. China suspended imports of all meat products from Brazil, the world’s top beef exporter, as a […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat rises on weather concerns

By GFM Network News March 6, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Board of Trade wheat futures rose 1.2 percent on Monday and hit their highest level since mid-February on concerns about dry conditions hampering crop development in the U.S. Plains, traders said. Falling production in Australia and strong export data also lent strength to the wheat market, which closed in positive […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Spring Wheat

India considering reinstating wheat import tax

By GFM Network News March 1, 2017

New Delhi | Reuters –– India could impose a 25 per cent import tax on wheat by the middle of March, two government sources said on Wednesday, reinstating the tariff after a gap of nearly three months in response to recent large purchases from overseas. India, the world’s second-biggest wheat producer, lowered the import tax […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

Canada says TPP trade deal dead without U.S.

By GFM Network News January 24, 2017

Calgary | Reuters — The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal cannot proceed without the United States, Canada said on Tuesday, even as Australia and New Zealand pledged to salvage it. U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the 12-nation TPP on Monday, following through on an election promise days after his inauguration. “This agreement was so […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Australia, New Zealand pledge to salvage TPP

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 23, 2017

Reuters — Australia hopes to salvage the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by encouraging China and other Asian nations into the agreement in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull his country out of the pact, its trade minister said on Tuesday. New Zealand’s trade minister said ministers from the remaining TPP countries would […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Australia approves sale of giant Kidman pastoral holdings

By GFM Network News December 9, 2016

Sydney | Reuters –– Australia on Friday approved the A$386.5 million (C$379.3 million) sale of the country’s largest private landholder S. Kidman and Co. to a consortium led by the country’s richest woman Gina Rinehart, after blocking two previous bids. Rinehart and her minority partner, Chinese developer Shanghai CRED, will now complete the purchase of […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Australian bidders gatecrash deal for country’s biggest landholding

By GFM Network News October 20, 2016

Sydney | Reuters — Four of Australia’s wealthiest outback cattle families plan to make the first entirely domestic offer to buy S.Kidman and Co, the country’s largest private landholding, paying more than a rival bid of A$365 million (C$370.1 million), two of the quartet said. Kidman has already accepted a joint offer by Australia’s richest […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans fall on harvest pressure

By GFM Network News September 28, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures weakened Wednesday on expectations that drier weather in the coming days will allow farmers in the Midwest to ramp up the harvest of what is expected to be record-large crops, traders said. MGEX spring wheat and K.C. hard red winter wheat contracts firmed on tight stocks […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock

TPP study sees net ‘neutral’ effect on dairy sector

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News September 12, 2016

An economic impact study on Canada’s participation in a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal finds losses in Canada’s dairy sector would be “offset” by gains for dairy processors from cheaper dairy imports. The study, prepared for the federal government by its Office of the Chief Economist and released Friday, notes Canada has offered expanded access […] Read more

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Hog futures hit contract highs on shock herd decline

Alberta Crop Report: Harvest more than three-quarters finished

NFU says proposed plant breeders’ rights come at farmers’ expense

Tag Archives Australia

Beef makes the cut as Australia, China move to boost trade

Brazil beef scandal leaves fewer options for global buyers

U.S. grains: Wheat rises on weather concerns

India considering reinstating wheat import tax

Canada says TPP trade deal dead without U.S.

Australia, New Zealand pledge to salvage TPP

Australia approves sale of giant Kidman pastoral holdings

Australian bidders gatecrash deal for country’s biggest landholding

U.S. grains: Corn, soybeans fall on harvest pressure

TPP study sees net ‘neutral’ effect on dairy sector

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