Insights and Stories on China

U.S. grains: Wheat, corn, soy turn higher on technical buying

Mar. 12, 2018 at 5:18 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain and soy futures notched modest gains on Monday, with prices turning higher on technical buying after earlier lows, traders said. Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures recovered from a three-week low and CBOT wheat from a 1-1/2 week low. CBOT May soybeans settled up […]

Argentina’s soybean season ‘dead’

Mar. 12, 2018 at 4:03 pm CDT

By Hugh Bronstein

China says U.S. soybeans ‘prime target’ over tariffs

Mar. 9, 2018 at 5:53 pm CST

By P.J. Huffstutter

Pulse weekly outlook: Alberta pea area tries to hang on

Mar. 8, 2018 at 11:52 am CST

By Dave Sims

U.S. grains: Wheat drops on profit-taking

Mar. 2, 2018 at 4:23 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

ADM, Syngenta settle suit over biotech corn exports

Feb. 16, 2018 at 6:54 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland has settled a lawsuit with Syngenta over the seed company’s launch of a biotech corn strain that roiled grain exports to China, according to regulatory documents filed on Friday. ADM sued Syngenta four years ago for selling the corn variety […]

By Tom Polansek

Pulse weekly outlook: Industry adapting to new market reality

Feb. 13, 2018 at 7:42 pm CST

CNS Canada — Pulse growers are facing new questions on the Prairies these days as a trade impasse with India forces many farmers to prepare for new market realities. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau next week will visit India, where the thorny subject of its levies on Canadian pulse exports will […]

By Dave Sims

U.S. grains: Wheat, soy futures jump on weather woes

Feb. 12, 2018 at 4:31 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Weather concerns sparked a rally in U.S. wheat and soybean futures on Monday, with forecasts for dry conditions threatening to reduce harvests in key growing areas, traders said. Chicago Board of Trade soft red winter wheat futures jumped 3.4 per cent to their highest since Aug. […]

By Mark Weinraub

With sorghum warning shot, Beijing targets Trump’s core farm base

Feb. 5, 2018 at 1:47 pm CST

Beijing | Reuters — In launching a probe into U.S. sorghum imports, China has fired a warning shot across its top trading partner’s bow that shows farmers in states that voted for U.S. President Donald Trump may be Beijing’s top retaliatory target in the event of a trade war. On […]

By Dominique Patton Michael Martina

U.S. soy cargo to China traded using blockchain

Jan. 22, 2018 at 1:21 am CST

London | Reuters — A cargo of U.S. soybeans shipped to China has become the first fully-fledged agricultural trade conducted using blockchain, participants said Monday. Louis Dreyfus, Shandong Bohi Industry Co., ING, Societe Generale and ABN Amro took part in the trade where the sales contract, letter of credit and […]

By Reuters