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China’s Top Export Markets for Diammonium Phosphate in 2021 (graphic): China is the world’s biggest phosphates exporter, shipping 10 million tonnes last year, or about 30 per cent of total world trade.
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China issues phosphate quotas to rein in fertilizer exports

High global prices have incentivized exports, raising domestic food security concerns

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Reuters – China is rolling out a quota system to limit exports of phosphates, a key fertilizer ingredient, in the second half of this year, analysts said, citing information from the country’s major phosphate producers. The quotas, set well below year-ago export levels, would expand China’s intervention in the market to keep a lid on
File photo of a rapeseed field in southern China’s Yunnan province. (YuenWu/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

USDA attaché alters call on China’s ending stocks

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MarketsFarm — Ahead of the July world supply and demand estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), due out Tuesday, the department’s attaché in Beijing put forth its forecast changes. The attaché lowered ending stocks for China’s new-crop soybeans and rapeseed, while it increased the carryover for new-crop corn and wheat, in reports released
CME August 2022 live cattle (candlesticks) with Bollinger bands (20,2). (Barchart)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME cattle, hogs advance in turnaround from losses

Live hog futures in China drop sharply

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Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle and hog futures closed stronger on Wednesday as the livestock markets recovered from losses in the previous session that were linked to fears of a global economic recession, traders said. Wall Street also finished higher, after broad declines in equities and commodities on Tuesday spilled over into
File photo of pigs on a farm in Germany. (FooTToo/iStock/Getty Images)
Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Swine fever outbreak in Germany’s top pork state poses lasting threat

Risk seen for spread to neighbours Netherlands, France

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Hamburg | Reuters — The spread of African swine fever to Germany’s most important pig rearing region has dealt a serious blow to the sector with major markets such as China likely to maintain import bans for years to come, analysts said on Monday. The outbreak on a farm in Emsland, Lower Saxony is the
Developer in China proposes wheat, garlic for houses
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Developer in China proposes wheat, garlic for houses

Desperate Chinese property developer proposes novel swap

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Reuters – A desperate developer in China’s softening property market has devised a novel promotion to attract buyers, recently offering to take wheat and garlic as down payments. One advertisement of Henan-based Central China Real Estate that had “swap wheat for house” in the title says buyers can use the crop, priced at two yuan
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China hit by rare convergence of rainfall, heat waves and a tornado

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China was hit the week of June 12 by a rare convergence of record rainfall, heat waves, and a tornado in the southern mega-city of Guangzhou, displacing millions of people, damaging properties and swamping farmland, with more storms and floods on the way at press time. Southern China is expected to see torrential rain until
Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: China’s population is about to shrink

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The world’s biggest nation is about to shrink. China accounts for more than one-sixth of the world’s population. Yet after four extraordinary decades in which China’s population swelled from 660 million to 1.4 billion, its population is on track to turn down this year, for the first time since the great famine of 1959-61. According

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