China
Does ‘do no harm’ hurt ag’s prospects for better trade?
Seven months before the 2018 midterm elections, Trump’s faceoff with China over trade has exposed an unexpected political vulnerability in what was supposed to be the Republican Party’s strongest region: rural America.
Questions are surfacing around what coronavirus could mean for buys from China, but analysts say no matter what China purchases from the U.S. this year, it doesn’t change the overall profile of the market.
It’s reported China is buying more U.S. soybeans.
Farmers interested potential premiums from high oleic soybeans now have full Chinese import approval for one product.
Arlan Suderman said the recent twist in trade talks with China goes back to a 1985 document where the U.S. government commissioned a study on how to negotiate with China.
Soybean futures fell to the lowest level in a decade as an escalating trade war between the U.S. and China dims hopes that the Asian nation will resume purchases of American beans to ease supply gluts.
Chinese officials are considering purchasing as much as 7 million tons of U.S. wheat depending on the progress of trade talks, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
China’s wall of cotton is coming down.
China is hoarding a record amount of cotton, increasing the risk of a supply surge that would tip prices into a bear market.