Northeast China expands soybean cultivation, reduces reliance on US imports2019-06-14China has been expanding the amount of land used to grow soybeans and diversifying its source of imports to reduce reliance on imports from the US - its second-largest supplier - amid a yearlong trade war between the world's two largest economies. In Northeast China, the soybean...
China: Trials underway for saltwater rice strains2019-06-12Researchers from Saline-Alkali Tolerant Rice Research and Development Center apply fertilizer to rice seedlings in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, May 9, 2019. (Photo/Xinhua)China has planted about 300 new strains of saltwater-tolerant rice on 670 hectares of experimenta...
Chinese pesticide spray additives market volume to hit 500,000 tons2019-06-04According to a speech from deputy general agriculturist, Zhang Wenjun, from China’s ICAMA (Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture) at the second Pesticide Formulation and Adjuvant Congress held in Leshan, Sichuan, China, today, the volume of the Chine...
Impact of GM Crops on Soil Health2019-05-30A healthy agricultural production system cannot exist without healthy soils. Aside from being the habitat of diverse organisms that contribute to carbon sequestration, the soil plays a vital role in food production as well as in climate change mitigation.Majority of the carbon di...
New mutations for herbicide resistance rarer than expected, study finds2019-05-30U. of I. crop sciences professor Patrick Tranel and his colleagues are working to understand the processes that lead to herbicide resistance in plants. - Photo by Fred ZwickyAfter exposing more than 70 million grain amaranth seeds to a soil-based herbicide, researchers were not a...
Brazil's corn exports could exceed 30 million tons in 20192019-05-27Brazilian farmers are getting ready to harvest what they hope will be a very good safrinha corn crop. The safrinha corn crop is the second crop of corn planted after the first crop of soybeans are harvested and it will represent approximately 72% of Brazil's total corn crop in 20...
Brazil soy sales soar due to Chinese, Dollar, delays in US planting2019-05-22Soybean sales in Brazil had been slowing down in recent weeks due to weakening prices, but the trend reversed course over the past ten days. The combination of a weaker Brazilian currency, increased Chinese demand, and the stalled negotiations between the U.S. and China (at least...
