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From Black Sea to US Midwest, extreme weather threatens crop output

Hot, dry weather forecast for Russia, Ukraine in coming months; relief seen for China's corn, soybean crops hit by heatwave

Forecast dryness in the Black Sea region's breadbasket is likely to stunt sunflower and corn yields, while heavy rain in the United States after near-record temperatures threaten to take a toll on crops, hitting world supplies and pushing prices higher.




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EU pork industry faces ‘nightmare’ if China restricts imports

Hamburg | Reuters – Europe’s pork industry faces a “nightmare scenario” of lower prices and falling profitability if China restricts imports from the region, industry executives and analysts said on Friday. Chinese firms have asked for an anti-dumping probe into pork imports from the European Union, state-backed Chinese media reported on Friday, escalating tensions after the bloc





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U.S. shuns free trade agreements

Senators rake the U.S. Trade Representative over the coals for the Biden administration’s trade policy agenda

Virginia Houston, director of government affairs with the American Soybean Association, says president Joe Biden’s administration feels FTAs pit U.S. domestic industries against one another.


China cancels large Ukrainian corn purchases

It’s the latest cancellation, as China lowers imports in face of low prices

Chinese buyers have cancelled shipments of Ukrainian-origin animal feed corn totalling several hundred thousand tonnes, traders said April 11. The precise volumes were unclear, but some traders spoke of about 300,000 tonnes cancelled in up to five Panamax shiploads that had previously been bought for April/May shipment. Most of the cancellations were in the last