Insights and Stories on China

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

Jun. 24, 2024 at 9:33 am CDT

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.

China may take provisional anti-dumping steps against EU pork imports

Jun. 20, 2024 at 10:17 am CDT

By Joe Cash Mei Mei Chu Reuters

Rival pork exporters could benefit from China-EU trade tensions

Jun. 17, 2024 at 4:33 pm CDT

By Naveen Thukral Reuters

EU pork industry faces ‘nightmare’ if China restricts imports

Jun. 14, 2024 at 1:56 pm CDT

By Michael Hogan

JBS says China blocks beef from US plant over detection of ractopamine

May. 29, 2024 at 5:03 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter Reuters Tom Polansek

China approves first gene-edited wheat in step to open up GM tech to food crops

May. 8, 2024 at 10:44 am CDT

China has approved the safety of gene-edited wheat for the first time as Beijing cautiously moves forward with commercial growing of genetically modified food crops.

By Mei Mei Chu Reuters

U.S. shuns free trade agreements

May. 1, 2024 at 11:14 am CDT

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. 

By Sean Pratt

China set for bumper harvests of grains and oilseeds, ministry says

Apr. 19, 2024 at 10:41 am CDT

China is set for another year of bumper harvest of grains and oilseeds, helped by expanded planting of winter wheat and rapeseed and healthy growth of seedlings, the country's agriculture ministry said on Friday.

By Reuters

China pork output marks first quarterly decline in four years

Apr. 16, 2024 at 11:56 am CDT

China's pork output eased in January-March from a year earlier, the first quarterly decline in nearly four years, as farmers slaughtered fewer pigs to support a recovery in hog prices.

By Mei Mei Chu Reuters