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How Brazilian Big Agriculture is Destroying the Brazilian Amazon

By Maria Dampman

Published Apr 4, 2018

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

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

Published Jan 11

· 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

The Future of Fruit Farming: MD2 Pineapple

By Jenny Hoo

Published Sep 13

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

Citizens Weekly Newsletter February 1, 2019

By Angie Setzer

Published Feb 1

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

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

Uruguay now is now investing in USA farms; Read Why.

By Robert Morgan

Published Jun 14, 2018

The MERCOSUR Member;Uruguay, with a much smaller landmass and population then either Brazil or Argentina has as the largest sector of its Agricultural production, principally producing Rice, Wheat, Corn, Barley, Livestock, Cattle and Fish, therefore contributing to the BLOC’s extensive Export Import Trade. Agrilend views Uruguay is set to experience a period of structurally lower growth in the coming years, as investment into expanding agricultural production and re-export capacity is tempered and foreign capital begins to flow into Argentina as the new Argentine government liberalizes its investment environment. Nonetheless, Uruguay will continue to outpace Latin America's average real GDP expansion as the country's middle class supports private consumption growth. Inflation will remain elevated over the coming years as the Banco Central Del Uruguay will not implement significant policy measures to stymie price increases... The good news for American Farmers especially in Cattle, Beef, Livestock, Milk, Dairy, and Cheese is that since China is pretty much buying all of the countries agricultural products at a pace far faster than it can produce Uruguay as well as Argentina and Brazil are seeking to invest in American farms to deliver this needed deficit quickly! All i can say is Amercian farmers should be singing moooooooooooooooo! For this is great news! For more information please contact me at robertmorgan@agrilend...

Mechanism of Trichoderma as soil conditioner

By Darren Chan

Published Mar 1

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

Citizens Weekly Newsletter August 3, 2018

By Angie Setzer

Published Aug 3, 2018

This Week In Agriculture:A Mixed Bag of Information from the Week that Was: August 3, 2018· Production adjustments, trade developments and rumors from a Facebook post all had an important role in this week’s trade. At the close we saw corn up 8, November beans 19 higher, with September wheat up 28... · It is nearly impossible to keep up with the back and forth when it comes to China/US trade relations as what is stated as fact in the morning one day can be completely turned around by that afternoon. The soybean market rallied aggressively Tuesday on word that China was ready to negotiate before turning abruptly lower that night after the Trump administration said it will not only press on with additional tariffs they would be 25% versus the 10% initially floated... Today we saw China announce a new list of products it would apply retaliatory tariffs to, first prompting the bean market to be 15 lower before recovering and finishing 6 higher...

Citizens Weekly Newsletter: March 1, 2019

By Angie Setzer

Published Mar 1

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