Insights and Stories on China

U.S. grains: Corn jumps four per cent

Oct. 11, 2019 at 7:51 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures surged more than four per cent on Friday while wheat and soybeans also firmed, buoyed by expectations for a partial U.S.-China trade deal and worries about wintry weather threatening crops in the Midwest, analysts said. Chicago Board of Trade December corn settled up […]

U.S. livestock: Hog futures up on trade progress, firm cash

Oct. 11, 2019 at 7:33 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Hogs slip despite record-large pork sales to China

Oct. 10, 2019 at 4:22 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs rise on China trade optimism

Oct. 9, 2019 at 6:47 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. grains: Soybeans up on trade optimism, Midwest weather

Oct. 9, 2019 at 5:16 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Allegations of U.S. peas, lentils passed off as Canadian

Oct. 8, 2019 at 5:37 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — A company in the United States has alleged there are green peas and green lentils being shipped from the U.S. to Canada, then exported to China and India as being Canadian. Jeff Van Pevenage, president of Columbia Grain at Portland, Ore., first made the allegations to the Western […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs recover on bargain buying, trade hopes

Oct. 8, 2019 at 5:02 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rallied on Tuesday in a technical and bargain-buying rebound from one-month lows amid hopes that China would step up U.S. pork imports as the country’s domestic pork prices have soared. The hog herd in China, the world’s largest pork market, […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: CME hogs limit down on U.S.-China trade jitters

Oct. 7, 2019 at 8:28 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures fell their daily limit on Monday, declining for a fifth straight session as an aggressive slaughter pace and uncertainty about this week’s U.S. trade talks with China overshadowed rising pork cut-out values, traders said. The selloff came as U.S. and Chinese […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Louis Dreyfus expects tough year on trade war, swine fever

Oct. 7, 2019 at 5:08 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — Agricultural commodity giant Louis Dreyfus warned on Monday that international trade tensions and a swine disease epidemic would continue to weigh on its activities in the rest of the year after pushing down first-half profit. The interim results reversed a rebound in group profits in the […]

By Gus Trompiz

JBS USA to produce pork without ractopamine

Oct. 4, 2019 at 7:19 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — JBS USA will remove a growth drug banned by Beijing from its U.S. hog supply, the company said on Friday, accelerating the competition for pork exports as China grapples with a devastating pig disease. The meat packer’s move away from the drug ractopamine, a feed additive, […]

By Tom Polansek