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Corn, soy fall on fund liquidation, better U.S. weather

By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, July 15 (Reuters) – U.S. corn and soybean futures continued to retreat from multimonth highs on Wednesday, pressured by investment fund selling tied to outlooks for drier...

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Corn, wheat fall nearly 2 pct on dollar gains, U.S. weather

By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, July 17 (Reuters) – U.S. corn and wheat fell nearly 2 percent on Friday, while soybeans also declined as the dollar climbed and rains provided needed moisture in the western...

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Corn, wheat fall 1 pct or more on dollar gains, U.S. weather

By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, July 17 (Reuters) – U.S. corn and wheat fell as much as 2 percent on Friday, while soybeans also declined as the dollar climbed and rains provided needed moisture in the...

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China currency move latest headache for U.S. soy exporters

By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO (Reuters) – China’s surprise currency devaluation is the latest challenge for U.S. soybean exporters already facing their slowest sales pace in seven years as huge South...

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Smithfield says US pork exports to China jump 45 pct in 1st 6 months of year

By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Smithfield Foods Inc, the world’s largest pork producer and processor, said its U.S. pork exports to China jumped 45 percent in the first six months of...

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U.S. ethanol industry sputters on cheap gas prices

By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO/NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) – The closure of two ethanol plants this week and proposed sale of a third highlight the growing challenges faced by small producers located far...

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U.S. lumber futures surge 4 pct as trade deal with Canada expires

By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, Oct 12 (Reuters) – U.S. lumber futures jumped 4 percent to their highest levels in a month on Monday as inventories of the building material ran low and a nearly decade-old...

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Green Plains Inc buys idled ethanol plant in Virginia

By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Green Plains Inc has paid $18.25 million for the sole ethanol plant in Virginia, it said on Monday, the latest in a string of consolidations as vast...

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Green Plains buys second U.S. ethanol plant in a week

By Michael Hirtzer Nov 2 (Reuters) – Green Plains Inc has bought its second ethanol plant in a week in a $93.8 million deal for a facility in Hereford, Texas, owned by Murphy USA Inc, it said on...

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Dry harvest presses harder on some U.S. farmer incomes

By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, Nov 3 (Reuters) – For Cory Ritter, a farmer in central Illinois, this year’s corn and soybean harvest was the driest he has ever seen in 11 years of farming. “It was nice to...

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