Glacier FarmMedia – China’s rejection of all Canadian meat is a stunning act considering forecasts that pork prices there will rise 70 per cent or more in the coming months, topping records hit in 2016, as its hog herd staggers under the onslaught of African swine fever. Pork is by far the most important meat […] Read more
Comment: China’s meat import move risks stoking consumer anger
An extremely Chinese tight market for pork leaves little room to reject Canada’s exports
U.S. ethanol future tied to bumper crop of D.C. politics
Politics is playing a significant role in the future of ethanol, which now uses more than 30 per cent of the corn in the U.S.
Glacier FarmMedia staff – Ethanol producers in the United States achieved another record year in 2018, with production climbing 1.9 per cent to 16.1 billion U.S. gallons processed from about 5.6 billion bushels of corn, or about 38 per cent of the 2017-18 crop. But ethanol producers are not content. They are vexed by the […] Read more
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