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Lollapalooza’s broad appeal leads to biggest audience yet

August 24, 2021 at 1:57 p.m.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Lollapalooza, the three-day music festival in Chicago's historic Grant Park, was bigger than ever this year with a lineup that honored its alternative rock roots and broadened...

Clock ticking on Olympics, says NHL commissioner

August 24, 2021 at 11:46 a.m.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Time is running out to complete a deal that would see the National Hockey League free players for the Sochi Olympics, commissioner Gary Bettman said on Wednesday....

Mississippi River reopens for barges as flood waters recede

August 24, 2021 at 11:25 a.m.

(Reuters) - The Mississippi River was reopened on Thursday along a five-mile stretch near St. Louis as waters receded after one of the worst floods on record halted barge traffic...

USDA decision on weekly DDGs export data could come within months

August 24, 2021 at 2:50 a.m.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department's comment period ends on Thursday on whether to release weekly export data for dried distillers' grains, a "co-product" of ethanol production that has become...

Farm trade frets over sequestration, meat sector worries most

August 24, 2021 at 12:25 a.m.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Farmers and agribusiness companies are worried that across-the-board federal budget cuts will snarl the supply channels for everything from milk and broiler chickens to grain shipments, but...

Wal-Mart joins agriculture sustainability group

August 23, 2021 at 1:06 p.m.

(Reuters) - The world's largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc has joined an alliance of other Fortune 500 companies, including Cargill and Kellogg Co, seeking to make agriculture more sustainable. The...

U.S. grain markets atwitter as crop tour tweets fuel rally

August 22, 2019 at 5:28 a.m.

(Reuters) - When U.S. grain markets suddenly began moving higher last Monday morning, traders pointed to tweets from an annual crop tour that detailed the damage, both in words and...

Wal-Mart joins agriculture sustainability group

December 24, 2018 at 1:54 p.m.

(Reuters) - The world's largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc has joined an alliance of other Fortune 500 companies, including Cargill and Kellogg Co, seeking to make agriculture more sustainable. The...

Tech-savvy investors flock to old-school crop tour

December 24, 2018 at 12:45 p.m.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The worst drought in a half century is bringing tech-savvy crop forecasters and fund managers back to the farm tradition of walking field rows to assess damage...

After drought blights crops, U.S. farmers face toxin threat

August 23, 2021 at 12:20 p.m.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The worst U.S. drought in five decades has parched the land and decimated crops. It now threatens to deal a second blow to farmers, who may have...

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