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ADM, Syngenta settle suit over biotech corn exports

By Tom Polansek February 16, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland has settled a lawsuit with Syngenta over the seed company’s launch of a biotech corn strain that roiled grain exports to China, according to regulatory documents filed on Friday. ADM sued Syngenta four years ago for selling the corn variety known as Agrisure Viptera or […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Industry adapting to new market reality

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News February 14, 2018

CNS Canada — Pulse growers are facing new questions on the Prairies these days as a trade impasse with India forces many farmers to prepare for new market realities. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau next week will visit India, where the thorny subject of its levies on Canadian pulse exports will be raised. India imposed the […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy futures jump on weather woes

By Mark Weinraub February 12, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Weather concerns sparked a rally in U.S. wheat and soybean futures on Monday, with forecasts for dry conditions threatening to reduce harvests in key growing areas, traders said. Chicago Board of Trade soft red winter wheat futures jumped 3.4 per cent to their highest since Aug. 8 on concerns about dryness […] Read more

Grain sorghum under irrigation at Bushland in northern Texas. (Susan O’Shaughnessy photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

With sorghum warning shot, Beijing targets Trump’s core farm base

By Dominique Patton, Michael Martina February 5, 2018

Beijing | Reuters — In launching a probe into U.S. sorghum imports, China has fired a warning shot across its top trading partner’s bow that shows farmers in states that voted for U.S. President Donald Trump may be Beijing’s top retaliatory target in the event of a trade war. On Sunday, the Ministry of Commerce […] Read more

Using blockchain technology, the Easy Trading Connect platform is meant to help digitalize and standardize commodity transactions for paperless trading. (Video screengrab from INGwb.com)

Crops, Markets, Reuters, Soybeans

U.S. soy cargo to China traded using blockchain

By Reuters January 22, 2018

London | Reuters — A cargo of U.S. soybeans shipped to China has become the first fully-fledged agricultural trade conducted using blockchain, participants said Monday. Louis Dreyfus, Shandong Bohi Industry Co., ING, Societe Generale and ABN Amro took part in the trade where the sales contract, letter of credit and certificates were digitalized on the […] Read more

CCA reports, News

CCA Report: More access to China

From the January 2018 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Dan Darling January 10, 2018

It took two trips to Beijing for Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) vice-president David Haywood-Farmer in late 2017, but it paid off with Prime Minister Trudeau and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announcing expanded access for Canadian beef on December 4. On the first trip, the CCA participated in the Beijing portion of Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Comment

Comment: China opens some more

By Gren Winslow January 8, 2018

Prime Minister Trudeau’s five-day visit to China last month had a sense of déjà vu about it for cattle producers. The PM was there to keep alive the hope of a free trade agreement with the second-largest economy in the world, but came away with little more than his promise that Canada would continue to […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Soybeans

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybean markets excite while corn settles

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm December 6, 2017

CNS Canada — Soybean prices on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) are finding support from Argentina weather while corn markets remain stuck in sideways trading, according to a Chicago trader. “The corn markets have kind of been left out of the Argentina weather equation with heavy fund selling here and there… and then might […] Read more

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in August 2016. (PM.gc.ca)

Livestock, Reuters

Trudeau says will keep exploring trade deal with China

By Michael Martina December 4, 2017

Beijing | Reuters — Canada will continue to explore a free trade agreement with China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, as it weighs its options after the U.S. threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Speaking after a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Trudeau said if “done […] Read more

Taste-testing during a Canadian Beef Advantage Seminar in Shanghai in 2013. (Canada Beef via YouTube)

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

China to accept Canadian chilled beef, pork in pilot project

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff December 4, 2017

Exporters of Canadian beef and pork are set to get expanded access to the “massive” Chinese market through a new bilateral pilot project. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday announced a series of joint initiatives and agreements in several fields including “a pilot project for the export of Canadian chilled […] Read more

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle hit contract highs on tight supply

U.S. grains: Soybeans tumble on doubts over U.S.-China trade progress

Alberta harvest wrapping up: report

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ADM, Syngenta settle suit over biotech corn exports

Pulse weekly outlook: Industry adapting to new market reality

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy futures jump on weather woes

With sorghum warning shot, Beijing targets Trump’s core farm base

U.S. soy cargo to China traded using blockchain

CCA Report: More access to China

Comment: China opens some more

CBOT weekly outlook: Soybean markets excite while corn settles

Trudeau says will keep exploring trade deal with China

China to accept Canadian chilled beef, pork in pilot project

Canadian Cattlemen Presents: Depth of Field

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