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Soy, rare earths and fuels: how Brazil vote impacts the global flow of resources reuters.com/world/china/soy-…
Soy, rare earths and fuels: how Brazil vote impacts the global flow of resources

Soy, rare earths and fuels: how Brazil vote impacts the global flow of resources

Brazil's surprising reelection of leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will have implications for the global flow of commodities from the world's largest food exporter and key mining prospect,...

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Farmer-funded attack ads targeting Republicans air across rural America reuters.com/legal/government…
Animal welfare-focused farm group targets Republicans in rural races

Animal welfare-focused farm group targets Republicans in rural races

A lobbying group that says it represents farmers and meat companies is helping to fund $3 million in attack ads ​against Republicans in some of the most competitive US midterm election races,...

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Bunge beats quarterly profit estimates on strong crush margins reuters.com/business/retail-…
Bunge beats quarterly profit estimates on strong crush margins

Bunge beats quarterly profit estimates on strong crush margins

Grain trader Bunge beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter adjusted profit on Thursday, ​benefiting from robust processing margins for soybeans and other oilseeds.

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Screwworm infests dog in Arizona, widening US cases reuters.com/world/us/us-conf…
Screwworm infests dog in Arizona, widening US cases

Screwworm infests dog in Arizona, widening US cases

The US Department of Agriculture confirmed a case of the flesh-eating parasite ​New World screwworm in a dog in Arizona on ‌Wednesday, widening infestations in the US to a third state.

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Russia turns to Arctic WW2 route to export grain reuters.com/business/russia-…
Russia turns to Arctic WW2 route to export grain

Russia turns to Arctic WW2 route to export grain

Russia, ​the world's largest wheat exporter, has turned to an Arctic World War II shipping route to ‌export grain for the first time as the conflict in Ukraine stalls Black Sea trade and officials...

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Argentina sees EU soymeal opportunity as deforestation rules threaten Brazil trade reuters.com/world/americas/a…
Argentina sees EU soymeal opportunity as deforestation rules threaten Brazil trade

Argentina sees EU soymeal opportunity as deforestation rules threaten Brazil trade

Brazil's soybean industry ​fears the European Union's new anti-deforestation regulations (EUDR) could curb soymeal exports to the bloc, creating an opening for rival supplier Argentina, which says it...

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Syngenta IPO aims for valuation of at least $66 billion, sources say reuters.com/legal/transactio…
EXCLUSIVE: Syngenta IPO aims for valuation of at least $66 billion, sources say

EXCLUSIVE: Syngenta IPO aims for valuation of at least $66 billion, sources say

Syngenta's advisers are ​targeting a valuation of at least $66 billion in the Swiss-Chinese agrochemicals group's planned Hong Kong listing, ‌which is likely to take place early next year, two people...

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Focus: China is back in the bull semen market, but only the best will do reuters.com/world/china/chin…
China is back in the bull semen market, but only the best will do

China is back in the bull semen market, but only the best will do

Utopia is one of Australia's best Angus bulls: jet black, muscular, he sires big, fast-growing cattle with superb meat quality.

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Lula wins historic fourth term as Brazil's president in dramatic comeback reuters.com/world/americas/b…
Brazil’s Lula wins historic fourth term, Flavio Bolsonaro refuses to concede

Brazil’s Lula wins historic fourth term, Flavio Bolsonaro refuses to concede

Senator Bolsonaro led the election's first round but lost in the runoff by over 4 million votes. The shock result defied polls, precedent and global ​anti-incumbent sentiment to put the brakes on a...

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Trump ends tariffs on some Canadian products, as Senator Collins faces close race reuters.com/business/us-expe…
Trump ends tariffs on some Canadian products, as Senator Collins faces close race

Trump ends tariffs on some Canadian products, as Senator Collins faces close race

With an incumbent Maine US senator from his own party locked in a tight reelection battle, President Donald Trump signed an order on Friday to ​remove 50% tariffs on some Canadian agricultural and...

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Trump's tax-exempt diesel draws skepticism from farmers, eludes others reuters.com/business/energy/…
Trump's tax-exempt diesel draws skepticism from farmers, eludes others

Trump's tax-exempt diesel draws skepticism from farmers, eludes others

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order this month to expand access to tax-exempt diesel as soaring prices frustrate voters ahead of midterm elections. But farmers say ​it is too risky to...

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US railroads pull ahead as high fuel costs hit truckers harder reuters.com/business/energy/…
US railroads pull ahead as high fuel costs hit truckers harder

US railroads pull ahead as high fuel costs hit truckers harder

Record fuel prices are pushing freight off US highways and onto trains, helping railroad companies rake in higher revenue and profits as shippers look for ​cheaper ways to move goods long distances.

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China snaps up Australian canola as improved ties, lower tariffs fuel demand reuters.com/business/retail-…
EXCLUSIVE: China snaps up Australian canola as improved ties, lower tariffs fuel demand

EXCLUSIVE: China snaps up Australian canola as improved ties, lower tariffs fuel demand

Chinese oilseed buyers have ‌purchased around 1 million metric tons of Australian canola in recent deals, as improved Beijing-Canberra ties, lower tariffs and stronger processing margins boost...

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France reports first human case of livestock virus Shamonda after patient dies reuters.com/business/healthc…
France reports first human case of livestock virus Shamonda after patient dies

France reports first human case of livestock virus Shamonda after patient dies

France reported the first human case of the Shamonda virus ‌usually found in livestock on Thursday in a hospital patient who died, though authorities said there was no risk to the general population.

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Brazil's Newcastle poultry outbreak unlikely to have major long-term impact, analysts say reuters.com/business/healthc…
Brazil's Newcastle poultry outbreak unlikely to have major long-term impact, analysts say

Brazil's Newcastle poultry outbreak unlikely to have major long-term impact, analysts say

An outbreak of Newcastle disease in Brazil is unlikely to cause lasting damage to the country's poultry industry if authorities contain it quickly, analysts ​said, though uncertainty over trade...

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US to launch $8 billion support program for farmers to offset diesel costs, Trump says reuters.com/world/us/us-laun…
US to launch $8 billion support program for farmers to offset diesel costs, Trump says

US to launch $8 billion support program for farmers to offset diesel costs, Trump says

President Donald Trump said the US Department of Agriculture will launch what he called a new "harvest fuel relief program" that will provide farmers with $8 billion in support to ​offset diesel...

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El Niño-powered drought leaves Indonesian palm farmers high and dry as river recedes reuters.com/business/environ…
El Niño-powered drought leaves Indonesian palm farmers high and dry as river recedes

El Niño-powered drought leaves Indonesian palm farmers high and dry as river recedes

Supendi, a 33-year-old palm fruit farmer, cooled his heels at a mill in Indonesia's West ‌Kalimantan for four frustrating days earlier this month trying to unload his harvest of fresh fruit bunches...

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Global food inflation is expected to intensify as supply shocks pile up reuters.com/world/americas/g…
Global food inflation is expected to intensify as supply shocks pile up

Global food inflation is expected to intensify as supply shocks pile up

Muhamad Yasin, a 63-year-old parking attendant in central Jakarta, says he has cut back on meals as rising prices have put food staples beyond his reach.

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Rotting meat smell sparks protest at Mexico's screwworm sterile-fly plant reuters.com/business/environ…
Rotting meat smell sparks protest at Mexico's screwworm sterile-fly plant

Rotting meat smell sparks protest at Mexico's screwworm sterile-fly plant

A rotten smell hanging over a town in Mexico's southern Chiapas state ‌drove residents into the streets on Thursday to demand the removal of a sterile-fly plant at the center of the US-Mexican fight...

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India customs scrutiny diverts Niger soybeans to Asia at steep discounts, sources say reuters.com/world/india/indi…
EXCLUSIVE: India customs scrutiny diverts Niger soybeans to Asia at steep discounts, sources say

EXCLUSIVE: India customs scrutiny diverts Niger soybeans to Asia at steep discounts, sources say

Around 11,000 metric tons of Niger-origin soybeans bound for India were diverted to ​other Asian markets and sold at steep discounts as a widening customs probe into suspected import tax ‌evasion...

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