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The Future of Fruit Farming: MD2 Pineapple

By Jenny Hoo

Updated 43 minutes ago

Pineapple pineapple cultivation Of late, the talk of the town seems to be revolving around the planting of MD2 pineapple. The questions is, why is this MD2 pineapple so popular?Pineapple is known to contain highest amount of vitamin C among all various types of fruits. It also contains a fair amount of magnesium, calcium, potassium and iron and develops a bromelin, of which is a type of enzyme... Currently, the main producers for pineapples are Thailand, the Phillipines, Brazil, China and Mexico... Due to the demand surge, lately Malaysia is also aggressively promoting the plantation of MD2 pineapple and DSTE Capital Limited is on the pace to be the largest MD2 pineapple planter in Malaysia, serving the rising demand from China and other countries...

Categories: Agribusiness, Organic, Specialty/Vegetable

How Brazilian Big Agriculture is Destroying the Brazilian Amazon

By Maria Dampman

Updated 2 hours ago

From there, most of the soy is transported to China who is the number one importer and consumer of Brazilian grown soy... Will Improving the Brazilian Economy Kill the Rainforest?Fearnside states that Brazil’s explosive growth and exportation of soy to China is helping the Brazilian economy dig itself out of a financial hole but with dire consequences. According an article published by the Guardian, soy exports to China have increased 10,685% since 1995. In 2017, China purchased 50... The second largest supplier of soy to China is the U...

Citizens Weekly Newsletter January 25, 2019

By Angie Setzer

Published Jan 25, 2019

This Week in Agriculture:A Mixed Bag of Information from the Week that Was: January 25, 2019· The government shutdown is now working into its second month creating a Ground Hog Day type feel across commodity markets. The lack of official information has opened the door to rumors and uncertainty over what is really taking place when it comes to fund positions, export sales and supply availability as a whole. As a result, markets remain locked in a trading range... The markets being closed Monday gave traders time to break down what exactly a package like that would look like, and what it would take to make it happen, coming to the conclusion that though China is working towards a resolution by purchasing large amounts of agricultural or energy supplies something of that magnitude is probably not likely to happen... Considering China is holding on to over 50% of the world’s wheat this would definitely be an interesting development...

Categories: Agribusiness

Citizens Weekly Newsletter January 11, 2019

By Angie Setzer

Updated 3 hours ago

· In addition to negotiations taking place surrounding the government shutdown traders were monitoring preliminary trade talks between the US and China taking place this week in Beijing. Talks were mostly among mid-level government representatives, though China’s top trade representative did stop by on the first day to get things started on the right foot. · Both countries were clear the talks were ‘positive’ and ‘beneficial to the process,’ with China reiterating its promise to purchase US agricultural and energy products and the US restating the issues the administration and others feel need to be resolved... · In addition to positive talks reports surfaced China was in buying more soybeans Monday... · China also made moves to approve several genetically modified traits for import...

Categories: Agribusiness

Nuisance Lawsuits are Taking a Bite Out of Big Pork

By Maria Dampman

Published Aug 17, 2018

Pork is the #1 meat consumed throughout China, and it is in demand like never before. Up until recently, most of China lived in poverty... As much of China is not arable land suited for either growing grains or raising animals, this poses an additional problem. China is roughly the same size as the U... After past instances where millions of people in China starved to death due to poor governmental planning, the government has become increasingly proactive in making sure that periods of mass starvation will never happen again...

Categories: Hogs

Citizens Weekly Newsletter February 1, 2019

By Angie Setzer

Published Feb 1, 2019

Excitement ensued when talk of China agreeing to purchase 5 mmt of soybeans a day was announced... However, China purchasing 5 mmt a day would in fact wipe out our carryout in a little over 5 days, bringing the reality of this claim into question... While any purchases are good, especially in this current market structure, 10 mmt is around 15 mmt (551 mbu) below what China had purchased from the US last marketing year. · We did hear talk that China would buy 300 million gallons of ethanol from the US as part of the trade package... · The US is not the only one holding high level trade talks with China...

Categories: Agribusiness

Citizens Weekly Newsletter November 30, 2018

By Angie Setzer

Published Nov 30, 2018

· The moment we have all been waiting for is just a day away as the G20 summit kicks off and the world awaits the dinner meeting between President Xi and President Trump scheduled for Saturday... On the China side we cannot ignore what is taking place when it comes to the spread of African Swine Fever... · Traders have been monitoring the situation closely, wondering when we could see China enter into the buy side of our pork export market... Neither thought was right it appears as China was the 3rd largest buyer of 2018 pork supplies in this week’s export sales report and responsible for over 70% of purchases made for 2019... · Aside from China we are revisiting refinery waiver and biofuel blending requirements as well...

Categories: Agribusiness

Citizens Weekly Newsletter September 14, 2018

By Angie Setzer

Published Sep 14, 2018

This Week in AgricultureA Mixed Bag of Information from the Week that Was: September 14, 2018· Updated USDA numbers, continued trade negotiations, African Swine Fever and a hurricane captured most of the market headlines this week. · The USDA updated their crop production and demand estimates mid-day Wednesday giving us further insight into what they expect to take place in the year ahead. Prior to the report many traders were anticipating the USDA to lower corn yields slightly, while increase soybean production expectations... · Even in the face of a more than burdensome USDA outlook the soybean market was actually able to hold on to some slight gains into the close on Wednesday as news broke that the US and China would sit down for another round of high level trade talks... · While China has had their hands full dealing with the spread of African Swine Fever with confirmed cases continuing to spread the announcement it was discovered in 2 wild boars in Belgium near the French border struck fear into the hearts of many hog producers across the globe...

Categories: Agribusiness

Citizens Weekly Newsletter: March 1, 2019

By Angie Setzer

Published Mar 1, 2019

Meanwhile on the bean side of things we saw additional China/US trade headlines and rumors push the market hard in both directions. · After the close last Friday Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue was quoted as saying China had agreed to purchase another 10 mmt of soybeans, in addition to the 10 mmt they had already committed to buy... Rumor had it several cargoes of corn had also been sold to China over the weekend, but was never confirmed... 8 mmt of soybeans sold to China in this week’s export sales report... · Interesting to note the US won a World Trade Organization dispute with China over whether or not the Chinese government was providing excessive government support to farmers of certain crops...

Categories: Agribusiness

Mechanism of Trichoderma as soil conditioner

By Darren Chan

Published Mar 1, 2019

Nowadays, the rate of China’s fertilizer utilization is relatively low, a large number of the fertilizer is loss or solidified in the soil. This situation has led to many soil problems, such as salinization, hardening and acidification conditions. Why trichoderma can help soil build good conditionTrichoderma can improve soil structure. The hyphae and other substance reproduced by trichoderma can be used as a cementing material to help soil build a stable granular structure, which is porous & full of nutrition. Soil aggregate structure can balance the contradiction between water and nutrients...

Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Organic