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China clears Xtend soybean variety for import

By Reuters, GFM Network News February 7, 2016

Reuters — Monsanto said on Feb. 3 it received import approval from China for its new genetically modified Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans and will sell the seeds in the U.S. and Canada for the 2016 growing season. China, the world’s biggest soybean importer, does not allow imports of new genetically modified crops until they […] Read more

Syngenta’s Interaction Centre at Stein, Switzerland. (Syngenta.com)

Crops, Reuters

China seeks food security with friendly bid for Syngenta

By GFM Network News February 3, 2016

Basel | Reuters — China made its boldest overseas takeover move when state-owned ChemChina agreed a US$43 billion bid for Swiss seeds and pesticides group Syngenta on Wednesday, aiming to improve domestic food production. The largest ever foreign purchase by a Chinese firm, announced by both companies, will accelerate a shake-up in global agrochemicals and […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

China to let market decide its corn prices

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 25, 2016

Beijing | Reuters — China will let the market decide its domestic state corn prices to help cap the country’s rising imports and record-high level of state reserves, a senior official was cited by state media as saying on Monday. “The direction of corn reform is… to let the market decide prices, and (state support) […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

China says must change corn supports to clear stockpile

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 11, 2016

Beijing | Reuters — China must lower corn prices to reduce its massive corn stockpile and curb imports of corn substitutes including barley, sorghum and distillers’ grain, state media quoted a senior agricultural official as saying. Chen Xiwen, deputy director of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said China needed to modify its reserve-based crop […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Reuters

Chinese farmers illegally growing GMO corn, Greenpeace says

By GFM Network News January 6, 2016

Beijing | Reuters — Farmers are illegally growing genetically modified (GMO) corn in China’s northeast, said environmental non-profit Greenpeace on Wednesday, in a report that may generate further distrust of the government’s ability to ensure a safe food supply. Beijing has spent billions of dollars to develop GMO crops that it hopes will ensure food […] Read more

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Global dairy prices unexpectedly fall in overnight auction

By Reuters, GFM Network News January 5, 2016

Wellington | Reuters — Global dairy prices unexpectedly eased in the overnight GlobalDairyTrade auction, a platform established by New Zealand’s Fonterra Co-operative Group, the world’s biggest dairy exporter. Fonterra’s GDT Price Index dipped 1.6 per cent, with an average selling price of $2,458 per tonne, in the auction held Tuesday (all figures US$). Whole milk […] Read more

Cereals, Crops, Markets, Reuters

Russia, China sign accords on grain quality control

By GFM Network News December 18, 2015

Reuters — Moscow and Beijing have signed agreements on the control of grain quality, which technically open the Chinese market to Russian grain. Russian food safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor and the Chinese government body in charge of quality control signed two food safety documents on Russian wheat, corn (maize), rapeseed, soybean and rice supplies at a […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

China plans to cut domestic corn prices to shrink stockpiles

By GFM Network News November 27, 2015

Beijing | Reuters — Beijing plans to cut local corn prices for a second year as it pushes to reignite stalled demand from its crisis-hit grain processors and whittle down the world’s biggest corn stockpile, industry sources said. In its latest move to boost a sector that has struggled with the world’s most expensive domestic […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Canpotex sees terminal expansion decision late next year

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News November 23, 2015

Winnipeg | Reuters — The new chief executive of Canpotex expects the Canadian potash trader to decide around late 2016 where to expand West Coast terminal capacity, a move that could give it a faster route to Chinese buyers in a highly competitive market. Options include building a $775 million terminal at Prince Rupert, B.C., […] Read more

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

New ‘superbug’ gene found in animals, people in China

By GFM Network News November 18, 2015

London | Reuters — A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China — including in samples of bacteria with epidemic potential, researchers said Wednesday. The discovery was described as “alarming” by scientists, who called for urgent restrictions on the use […] Read more

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Spring wheat up, durum mixed

U.S. grains: Soy futures end up but notch weekly loss after China buys Argentina crops

U.S. criticizes Mexico’s handling of screwworm near border

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Prairie Wheat Weekly: Spring wheat up, durum mixed

U.S. grains: Soy futures end up but notch weekly loss after China buys Argentina crops

U.S. criticizes Mexico’s handling of screwworm near border

Tag Archives China

China clears Xtend soybean variety for import

China seeks food security with friendly bid for Syngenta

China to let market decide its corn prices

China says must change corn supports to clear stockpile

Chinese farmers illegally growing GMO corn, Greenpeace says

Global dairy prices unexpectedly fall in overnight auction

Russia, China sign accords on grain quality control

China plans to cut domestic corn prices to shrink stockpiles

Canpotex sees terminal expansion decision late next year

New ‘superbug’ gene found in animals, people in China

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