Reading Time: 2 minutes China's pork output eased in January-March from a year earlier, the first quarterly decline in nearly four years, as farmers slaughtered fewer pigs to support a recovery in hog prices.
China pork output marks first quarterly decline in four years
Pulse Weekly: Indian demand lifting Canada’s export program
Reading Time: 2 minutes Pulse Canada president Greg Cherewyk said the country’s pulse export program remains in great shape amidst mixed news for the industry.
China’s drive to boost grain production hits bottleneck, state media says
Reading Time: < 1 minute China's drive to boost grain production has entered a bottleneck where it is difficult to increase production further, state media reported on Monday, as Beijing launched a new drive to raise domestic output by 50 million metric tons by 2030.
Beijing nudged Syngenta to withdraw $9 billion Shanghai IPO on market weakness, sources say
China's securities watchdog's tighter scrutiny of IPOs has led some companies to scrap plans, move offshore
Reading Time: 3 minutes Chinese authorities nudged Swiss agrichemicals and seeds group Syngenta to withdraw its application for a long-delayed $9 billion IPO in Shanghai on concerns about the impact a sizeable new offering would have on a volatile market, four people said.
China expands list of GM soybean, corn variety approvals
Reading Time: < 1 minute China has approved 27 genetically modified corn seed varieties and 3 GM soybean varieties, expanding its list of approvals as it aims to increase the development and planting of high-yielding crops.
ICE Canada Weekly: Look for canola to ease back
Reading Time: 2 minutes At mid-March one broker said he expects canola prices on the Intercontinental Exchange to make their way lower for the balance of the month.
U.S. livestock: Lean hogs retreat in nearby contract after rally
Cattle futures declined in a retreat from rallies on Friday
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures on Monday ended lower in the front-month contract in a setback from strong recent gains, traders said.
U.S. grains: Soy hits 2-yr lows on South American crop prospects, demand worries
Chinese demand less certain as real estate crisis deepens there
Reading Time: 2 minutes U.S. soybean futures fell to two-year lows below $12 a bushel on Monday, pressured by improving prospects for large South American harvests and worries about demand as top global soy buyer China struggles with a real estate crisis, analysts said.
USDA attaché reports from Canada, other countries
Drought, grasshoppers among concerns cited for Canadian Prairies
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Global Agricultural Information Network of the United States Department of Agriculture issued a series of reports during the week ended Jan. 26. Of those, some of them could have an affect on the North American markets.
Australia achieves average wheat, barley harvests
Total exports down, but percentage going to China increased
Reading Time: 2 minutes Australian wheat and barley came away with average crops for 2023/24, as the threat of dryness caused by an El Niño posed a major challenge, according to the United Stated Department of Agriculture attaché in the country’s capital of Canberra.
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