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It’s the second straight Rivalry Series in which the United States won the first three games, only to see Canada storm back and win four straight. The teams split a pair of games in Ontario in December, with Canada winning the fourth game in a shootout. Then, Canada won two straight last week in Saskatchewan. “The Canada-U.S. games are always exciting games and the games you get up for,” Spooner said. Photos You Should See View All 21 ImagesGrace Zumwinkle scored for the Americans.

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☆ More Cheese, Please: Farmers Are Squeezing Cows for Fattier Milk
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Kirk Maltais | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Dairy farmers look to different breeds and feeds in the quest for more butterfat. Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty ImagesAmericans are eating more cheese and butter. That has dairy farmers scrambling to get their cows to produce fattier milk. The efforts include using different cow breeds and feed mixes, and making sure animals are comfortable and don’t get too hot. The result is that the average amount of butterfat in milk produced by U.S. dairy herds has climbed past 4% and above the previous record set during World War II.

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☆ Timely Rains Relieve Some Pressure on Corn-Belt Crops
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Kirk Maltais | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ California Law Threatens to Help Drive Up Bacon Prices
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Kirk Maltais | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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El Niño hasn’t even landed yet. That hasn’t stopped it from moving commodity markets around the world. The hard-to-predict climate pattern, when powerful, can usher in intense drought or rainfall, upend output from the world’s breadbasket regions, and whipsaw the prices of commodities. Brazilian sugar producers, American grain farmers and international traders are bracing for the phenomenon. But the cyclical shift in ocean temperatures can just as easily be a dud.

☆ Wheat, Soybean, Corn Prices Expected to Have Choppy 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Kirk Maltais | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Grain prices, which surged following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have settled to where they were before the war. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent U.S. grain futures soaring early in 2022 before their recent retreat. The new year promises to be another volatile one. Futures for wheat and soybeans reached record highs earlier in 2022, and corn futures notched their highest level in more than a decade. The war stifled supply, and so did dry weather in many crop-growing areas.

☆ Coffee Market Goes Cold as Brazilian Weather Normalizes
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Kirk Maltais | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It can take time for coffee-futures prices to trickle into retail prices, if they do at all. Coffee was one of the hottest commodities earlier this year, but it has now gone cold, with prices declining more than 20% in the past month. Wet weather in farming areas such as Brazil and Indonesia is raising the prospect of a good crop and bigger coffee supply, sending prices down. At the same time, a strong dollar this year has pressured prices of many commodities.

☆ Cotton Prices Drop Amid Economic Worries, Strong Dollar Pressure
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Kirk Maltais | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Cotton prices have dropped back to earth, with concern about slow demand overshadowing a potentially poor harvest while the dollar surges to 20-year highs. Futures have shed 25% since late last month, effectively eliminating gains fueled by a U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast that more than 40% of U.S. acres planted with cotton this year wouldn’t be harvested because of drought. The drop brings prices closer to their typical levels, with the most actively traded futures ending Tuesday at 88 cents a pound, down more than 40% from their peak in May, which was the highest price in more than a decade.

CommoditiesIndia banned exports of broken rice and levied a tax on other key varieties in a move that would add to global inflationary pressure and exacerbate food supply pains caused by the war in Ukraine.

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