Insights and Stories on China

Canada’s canola meal sales to China at five-year high

Nov. 14, 2016 at 1:02 pm CST

Winnipeg/Beijing | Reuters –– Canadian canola meal shipments to China have jumped to their highest level in five years, boosting profits of crush plants and firming prices as farmers slog through a difficult harvest. Canada shipped 415,000 tonnes of canola meal to China from January through August, the most since […]

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on export sales, soymeal gains

Oct. 27, 2016 at 4:57 pm CDT

By Michael Hirtzer

CBOT weekly outlook: Harvest pressure seen easing

Oct. 26, 2016 at 4:50 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

China busts gang selling expired dairy products

Oct. 24, 2016 at 1:59 pm CDT

By Reuters

Pork packer HyLife to enter expansion mode

Oct. 18, 2016 at 7:32 pm CDT

By Staff

U.S. grains: Soybeans fall from peak on weak cash market

Oct. 18, 2016 at 5:40 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures fell for the first time in four sessions on Tuesday, pressured by a weak cash market and by profit-taking after hitting a 3-1/2-week high earlier in the session, traders said. Corn futures eased in a mild technical setback but remained within the prior […]

By Julie Ingwersen Karl Plume

China approves corn export permits to two companies

Sep. 30, 2016 at 9:32 am CDT

Beijing | Reuters –– China has given approval to at least two companies to export corn, two sources with knowledge of the matter said, in a radical move by the world’s No. 2 producer to cut its ballooning surplus that could add more supply to a saturated global market. The […]

By Reuters

ICE weekly outlook: Canola treads water looking for direction

Sep. 28, 2016 at 5:29 pm CDT

CNS Canada — ICE Futures Canada canola contracts continue to chop around in a narrow range these days, as the trade waits for the market to break one way or another. Canada and China recently agreed on rules over dockage that will see shipments of canola accepted at Chinese ports […]

By Dave Sims

China slaps more duties on U.S. DDGS

Sep. 28, 2016 at 2:50 pm CDT

Beijing | Reuters –– China will impose anti-subsidy duties of between 10 and 10.7 per cent on imports of U.S. animal feed ingredient known as distillers’ dried grains (DDGS), the Commerce Ministry said in a preliminary ruling on Wednesday. The move was widely expected after the government announced a similar […]

By Reuters

U.S. farmer suits over Syngenta corn get class status

Sep. 27, 2016 at 6:40 pm CDT

Reuters — A U.S. district court judge in Kansas this week said lawsuits brought by U.S. farmers against seed company Syngenta over sales of biotech corn seeds not approved for import by China can proceed as a class action, according to a court filing. Farmers from the largest U.S. corn-producing […]

By Reuters