Reading Time: < 1 minute Palm oil production in Indonesia is expected to rise in 2025/26 to 47 million tonnes, according to the United States Department of Agriculture attache in Jakarta. Such would be a 1.50 million-tonne increase from the attache's estimate of 45.50 million tonnes produced in 2024/25.
Improved yields to increase Indonesia palm oil output
Accounts for more than half of global production
China, Vietnam support multilateral trade regime amid U.S. tariff pressure
Reading Time: 2 minutes China and Vietnam expressed their support for maintaining a multilateral trade regime centered around the World Trade Organization in a joint statement issued on Tuesday at the end of a two-day visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
India forecasts above average monsoon rains in boost to crop output, economy
Reading Time: 2 minutes India is forecasting above-average monsoon rains in 2025 for the second year running. This is expected to increase agricultural production and economic growth.
Canada’s inflation surprisingly slows to 2.3 per cent in March
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada's annual inflation surprisingly slowed in March to 2.3 per cent, three notches below the prior month, largely helped by lower gasoline and travel tour prices, data showed on Tuesday.
ADM halting domestic trading in China, cutting jobs in Shanghai
Reading Time: < 1 minute Global grain merchant Archer-Daniels-Midland has begun shutting down domestic trading operations in China and laying off staff within its largest business segment as part of a global cost-cutting push, the company said in an emailed statement on Monday.
Canadian Meat Council calls for federal support for pork processors, producers
Some packers are projecting losses of over $100 million this year in face of Chinese tariffs, council says
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Canadian Meat Council says pork processors and farmers need targeted support from the federal government to maintain the viability of packers and to not lose jobs.
What are the thorny farm issues in India-US trade negotiations?
Reading Time: 2 minutes India and the United States have finalized the terms of reference for the first phase of a bilateral trade agreement to be concluded late this year, with a view to reaching bilateral trade worth $500 billion by 2030.
Railways eliminate carbon surcharge
Surcharge came off April 1 after federal government axed consumer carbon price
Reading Time: < 1 minute Farmers said they are happy and relieved that Canada's two major railways have removed their carbon tax surcharges.
Trade instability likely to tighten 2025 crop profit margins says FCC
Farmers in both west and east unlikely to deviate much on seeded acres of canola, wheat, soy and corn despite volatility
Reading Time: 2 minutes Tight margins could get tighter amid trade instability as farmers prepare to seed this year’s crop, say Farm Credit Canada economists.
WTO chiefs past and present demand rapid reform to keep global free trade alive
Reading Time: 2 minutes A former World Trade Organization boss has said the future terms of global trade, rocked by U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping protectionist tariffs, could be decided outside the 30-year-old international watchdog unless it reforms itself fast.
A message from April Stewart, Country Guide's Associate Editor
