Isis Almeida

Chicago Bureau Chief

Wheat Harvest in Egypt

Wheat Rises to 1-Week High as Demand Outweighs Big Russian Crop

Operations At A Farm In Iowa

US Soybean Farmers Near ‘Financial Precipice’ Due to Tariffs

Cargill Beef Plant With 20% Of Alberta's Virus Cases Reopens

Cargill Billionaire Owners See Record Payout as Profit Rises

A Brazilian Soybean Harvest As Seasonal Crop Sees Cut

Cargill’s Revenue Hits 4-Year Low Amid Declining Crop Prices

Traditional Chocolate Making in France

World

Storied French Cocoa Trader Touton Is Said to Be Put Up for Sale

Democratic members of Congress and Texas House Democrats during a news conference in Warrenville, Illinois, US.

US

Texas Governor Orders Arrest of Democrats Who Left State

Texas Democrats Flee To Chicago In Bid To Halt Redistricting

Texas Democrats Leave for Chicago to Block Redistricting Plan

Grand Opening Of Iconic British Chocolatier And Cacao Grower Hotel Chocolat's First U.S. Location In The Lakeview Neighborhood Of Chicago

Consumer

M&M's Owner Helps Premium Chocolatier Crack US Market

Gil Quiniones

ComEd CEO Seeks Rules to Prevent AI From Boosting Energy Bills

Day Two Of Semafor World Economy Summit 2025

Penny Pritzker Warns Trump Cuts Threaten US in Global Tech Race

Bunge Said To Near Deal To Buy Glencore's Viterra

Deals

Bunge Clears Way for $8.2 Billion Viterra Deal With China Nod

Bunge Close to Getting China Ruling on Viterra Deal

Bunge Close to Getting China Ruling on Viterra Deal

MLB: JUL 25 Twins at White Sox

Billionaire Ishbia Reaches Deal for Future Control of White Sox

Chicago Billionaire to Pay for $650 Million Soccer Stadium

Real Estate

Chicago Billionaire to Pay for $650 Million Soccer Stadium

Cotton Harvest As Two Major Crop Traders Propose Takeover Of Namoi Cotton

Commodities

Commodity Trader ED&F Man Expands Into Cotton With Viterra Hires

Nestle Net Profit Rises 21 Percent

Consumer

Nestle to Raise Prices of Some US Chocolate on High Cocoa Costs

Grains of white rice.

Japan’s Zen-Noh Establishes Grain-Trading Operations in Geneva

Bunge Said To Near Deal To Buy Glencore's Viterra

US-China Tensions Stall Bunge’s $8.2 Billion Viterra Deal

DOJ Launches Probe Into ADM Over Its Accounting Practices

Commodities

ADM Layoffs Upend Trader’s Global Commodity Desk in Switzerland

The Race to Map the World and Protect $110 Billion of Trade

Cash Crunch Stalls Cocoa and Coffee Trading Around the World