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USDA approves funds to fight screwworm, may resume Mexico cattle imports this year

By Reuters, Tom Polansek December 13, 2024

The Biden administration approved a second round of emergency funding to block New World screwworm from entering the U.S. on Friday, a U.S. Department of Agriculture undersecretary told Reuters, after Washington suspended cattle imports from Mexico over the pest.

Canola, Crops, Markets, News, Soybeans

USDA adjusts world, Canadian canola/rapeseed data

Lowers world, Canadian production

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm December 10, 2024

The United States Department of Agriculture made a number of revisions to its data for canola/rapeseed in its monthly world oilseed report. On a particular note, the USDA cut its production estimate for Canada, the world's top producer of the oilseed.

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Markets

USDA cuts corn ending stocks estimate, soybeans unchanged

By Phil Franz-Warkentin December 10, 2024

Corn ending stocks in the United States will be tighter than earlier projections due to increased exports and demand from ethanol producers, according to updated supply/demand estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture released Dec. 10. The projected wheat carryout was also revised lower, while soybean stocks were unchanged.

Workers on a paint assembly line at Deere and Co.'s seeding equipment manufacturing plant at Moline, Illinois in 2016.

Columns, Editor's column

Editor’s Rant: Next order of business

By Dave Bedard December 3, 2024

Given all that’s known so far about the guy, I’m not optimistic. Whether you or I like him or not, though, by this time next month, he’ll again be president of the United States. To anyone suggesting Canadians should just clam up about this development south of the border and mind our own business, I’d […] Read more

Canola, Cereals, Corn, Crops, Markets, News, Soybeans, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

USDA lowers U.S. soybean/corn yield estimates

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 8, 2024

There were a few tweaks to the latest monthly report from the United States Department of Agriculture released on Nov. 8. The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates not only lowered yields for U.S. corn and soybeans, the department reduced the ending stocks for both.

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Livestock, News, Reuters

US expands bird flu testing after finding symptom-free infections in people

By Deena Beasley, Leah Douglas, Reuters November 8, 2024

Farm workers who have been exposed to animals with bird flu should be tested for the virus even if they do not have symptoms, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

Livestock, News, Reuters

US to begin bulk milk testing for bird flu after push from industry

By Leah Douglas, Reuters October 31, 2024

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will soon begin testing bulk raw milk across the country for bird flu, a significant expansion of the agency's efforts to stifle the rapid spread of the virus, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Reuters.

Cargo ship Despina V, carrying Ukrainian grain, is seen in the Black Sea off Kilyos near Istanbul, Turkey on Nov. 2, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Umit Bektas)

Markets

Ukrainian grain exports to fall in 2024/25: USDA attaché

By Phil Franz-Warkentin October 29, 2024

Ukrainian grain exports are expected to be down in the 2024/25 marketing year due to smaller crops, tighter carryout stocks and the ongoing challenges of shipping through the Black Sea, according to the United States Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service in Kyiv.

Cereals, Corn, Markets, News, Spring Wheat, Winter Wheat

More wheat, less corn in Argentina for 2024/25 says United States Department of Agriculture attaché

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm October 28, 2024

As wheat production in Argentina is projected to increase in 2024/25, according to the United States Department of Agriculture attaché in Buenos Aires, the country’s corn output is to be smaller than in the previous year.

News, Reuters

Fast-food chains hold the onions after McDonald’s E. coli outbreak

McDonald's pulls Quarter Pounder from one-fifth of its US restaurants

By Brad Brookes, Reuters October 24, 2024

U.S. fast-food chains were pulling fresh onions out of their menu items on Thursday after the vegetable was named as the likely source of an E. coli outbreak at McDonald's restaurants that has sickened 49 people and killed one.

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn fall on harvest pressure

U.S. livestock: Hog futures slide in technical correction

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Acknowledging the past, seeking a better future

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