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Brazil pushes back decision on Bayer-Monsanto tie-up

By GFM Network News November 22, 2017

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazilian antitrust agency Cade on Wednesday extended its deadline to review Bayer’s proposed takeover of Monsanto by 90 days to late March, potentially spoiling plans to wrap up the US$66 billion tie-up by the end of the year. A spokesman said Cade had approved the extension at a session on […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Reuters

Russia to restrict Brazilian pork, beef imports from Dec. 1

By GFM Network News November 20, 2017

Moscow/Brasilia | Reuters – Russia will place temporary restrictions on imports of pork and beef products from Brazil from Dec. 1, the country’s agricultural safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on Monday. Russia said last week it was considering a ban on all pork and beef imports from Brazil after finding the feed additive ractopamine in some […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Corn sinks to contract lows

By GFM Network News November 16, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures fell to new contract lows for the third straight day on Thursday as lower-than-expected weekly export sales and abundant supplies weighed on the market. Soybeans also declined on disappointing weekly U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales data and as improving crop weather in Brazil raised prospects that the […] Read more

Columns, Soybeans

Growing soybeans in Brazil

Toban Dyck had a glimpse of South American ag in a whirlwind trip to Brazil 

By Toban Dyck November 9, 2017

At the end of August my wife and I traveled to Brazil for the International Pork and Poultry conference. I assumed the soybean plants in Brazil grow six-feet tall and that farmers there expect yields close to 80 bushels per acre. I expected to see lush growth, and an insatiable appetite for clear cutting the […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn and soybeans down after USDA report

By GFM Network News November 9, 2017

CNS Canada – Corn and soybean futures at the Chicago Board of Trade fell following the United States Department of Agriculture’s crop production report which raised corn estimates and kept soybeans at previous estimates. “I expect the low volatility environment to continue with soybeans remaining in tight trading short term. And for corn prices eventually […] Read more

Reuters, Soybeans

Brazil cuts into U.S. soybean market share in China

By GFM Network News November 3, 2017

Reuters – Brazil is expected to win a larger share of China’s soybean imports in coming months, hitting U.S. exporters during the peak marketing season for their most valuable farm product as the world grapples with a fifth consecutive bumper crop. China is expected to buy about five million tonnes of soybeans from Brazil for […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans retreat on Brazil rains, technical selling

By GFM Network News October 30, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures turned lower on Monday on forecasts for crop-boosting rains in some areas of Brazil and as technical selling and month-end positioning weighed on the market. Corn was narrowly mixed and wheat futures fell for a fourth straight session, with some wheat contract months hitting fresh contract lows. Prices […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

Brazil court unfreezes JBS owners’ assets

By Reuters, GFM Network News October 19, 2017

Brasilia | Reuters –– A Brazilian federal appeals court on Thursday granted an injunction releasing assets belonging to the Batista brothers, owners of the world’s largest meatpacker JBS SA, Ticiano Figueiredo, a lawyer representing the defendants, said. A spokeswoman at the appeals court did not immediately reply to a request for comment. On Oct. 6, […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn, soy steady as attention turns to South America

By GFM Network News October 18, 2017

CNS Canada — Soybean and corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade are both keeping rangebound as attention shifts from last week’s U.S. Department of Agriculture supply/demand report to South American growing conditions. During the week ended Wednesday the December corn contract rose 2.5 cents, to $3.485 per bushel (all figures US$). On the […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Livestock, Reuters

JBS owners ‘profited’ from inside information, Brazil police say

By Reuters, GFM Network News October 10, 2017

Brasilia | Reuters — Brazil’s police investigation into insider trading by the owners of the world’s largest meatpacker JBS SA has found that they made a profit by taking financial positions before details of their plea bargain deal with prosecutors became public, the head of the probe said Tuesday. Police chief Edson Garutti, told Globo […] Read more

Daily Network News

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Agriculture groups welcome seed, fertilizer approval bill

AAFC projects tighter canola stocks for 2026-27

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