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Massive soybean defaults loom as China buyers play hard-ball: top buyer

August 24, 2021 at 11:05 p.m.

RIZHAO, China (Reuters) - Chinese buyers may default on a further 1.2 million metric tons (1.32 million tons) of soybeans worth about $900 million being shipped from the United States...

India, China target cheaper potash as cartel cracks

August 24, 2021 at 2:15 p.m.

MUMBAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Potash buyers India and China are seeking aggressive price cuts of 25 percent or more as they press their advantage over producers after the collapse of a...

Exclusive: China may become top wheat importer after crops ruined

August 24, 2021 at 1:16 p.m.

WU LIU, China/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China's wheat crop has suffered more severely than previously thought from frost in the growing period and rain during the harvest, and import demand to...

Dead pigs in China river spotlight heedless industry

August 24, 2021 at 12:55 a.m.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - The rotting bodies of about 6,000 pigs in a river that supplies tap water to Shanghai has drawn attention to an ugly truth - China's pig farms...

China’s struggle with sugar smugglers far from over

August 23, 2021 at 10:20 p.m.

LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's battle against sugar smugglers working across southern borders is failing as it keeps domestic prices higher than the world market to support its own production, officials...

Analysis: China turns to machines as farmers seek fresh fields

August 22, 2019 at 6:53 a.m.

BAOQUANLING, China (Reuters) - China needs to replace millions of workers who have quit farms for cities, but even its vast state power might not be able to transform the...

U.S. barnyards help China supersize food output

August 23, 2021 at 5:30 a.m.

Inside a dimly lit barn in northeast Indiana, where the air smells faintly of corn and earth, the future ofChina'sfood supply is squealing for attention. A farmhand shuffles through the...

U.S. barnyards help China supersize food output

December 24, 2018 at 1:54 a.m.

Inside a dimly lit barn in northeast Indiana, where the air smells faintly of corn and earth, the future ofChina'sfood supply is squealing for attention. A farmhand shuffles through the...

Factbox: China’s voracious appetite spurs farm expansion

August 23, 2021 at 4:51 a.m.

(Reuters) - A growing number of companies have laid out plans to build or expand pig and chicken farms in China to meet rising demand in the world's second largest...

Insight: U.S. barnyards help China super-size food production

August 23, 2021 at 4:48 a.m.

ALBION, Indiana/BEIJING (Reuters) - Inside a dimly lit barn in northeast Indiana, where the air smells faintly of corn and earth, the future of China's food supply is squealing for...

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