Reading Time: 2 minutes China’s soybean imports from Brazil surged 37.5 per cent in May from a year earlier, data showed on Friday, as buyers scooped up South America’s bumper crop, while supplies from the United States also rose 28.3 per cent.
China’s May soybean imports from Brazil jump 37.5 per cent year over year
Indian rapeseed meal exports soar as China replaces Canadian canola supply
China placed Canadian canola oil, meal under a 100 per cent tariff in March
Reading Time: 2 minutes China is set to make record purchases of rapeseed meal from India following Beijing's move to impose a 100 per cent retaliatory tariff on Canadian canola imports, senior industry officials said.
ICE Canada Weekly: Canola poised to rise or fall
Weather, China could guide oilseed’s trajectory
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canola prices could shift up or down in the coming weeks due to uncertainty, said Jerry Klassen, analyst with Resilient Capital in Winnipeg
Bunge-Viterra merger clears final hurdle with China’s conditional approval
Reading Time: < 1 minute China's market regulator has granted conditional approval for global agribusiness Bunge Global's merger with Glencore-backed grain handler Viterra, it said on Monday, clearing the final hurdle for the $34 billion mega-deal announced two years ago.
Bunge receives China regulatory approval for Viterra deal
Reading Time: < 1 minute Global agribusiness Bunge Global has received regulatory approval from China for its acquisition of grain handler Viterra and expects to close the $34 billion deal "on or around July 2," the company said in a statement on Friday.
Bunge nears China ruling for $8.2 billion Viterra merger, Bloomberg News reports
Reading Time: < 1 minute U.S. grains merchant Bunge is close to getting a ruling from Chinese regulators on its $8.2 billion (C$11.2 billion) purchase of Glencore-backed Viterra with a verdict expected within days, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.
Pulse weekly: Canadian pea exports up in April
China the largest destination despite tariffs
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canadian pea exports were up in April, with China the largest destination despite new trade barriers, according to the latest Statistics Canada data.
China delays decision in EU pork import case amid EV tariff talks
Reading Time: < 1 minute China extended on Tuesday a high-profile investigation into imported pork from the European Union by six months, days before it was due to wrap up and as negotiators from Brussels and Beijing carve out a deal over the bloc's electric vehicle tariffs.
Experts doubt FBI’s claim that crop fungus smuggled by Chinese students is a threat
Reading Time: 2 minutes A biological sample that a Chinese researcher was accused of smuggling into the United States and that prosecutors cast as a “dangerous biological pathogen” is a common type of fungus already widespread in U.S. crop fields that likely poses little risk to food safety, experts said.
China wants slimmer pigs
Chinese government cracking down on speculative “refattening” practice
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chinese farmers and small firms have increasingly bought market-ready pigs from larger breeders and fattened them in a bet on higher prices, but the government is cracking down on the speculative practice to slim down hogs and stabilize the market.
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