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...
View ArticleU.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...
View ArticleU.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...
View ArticleGreen 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...
View ArticleGreen 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...
View ArticleDry 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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