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Analysis of the Causes of Roots Without Shoots in Corn Planting
In recent years, many farmers have reported the phenomenon of roots without shoots. This phenomenon generally involves well-developed roots but no shoot, or just a tiny tip emerging that then stops growing. Why exactly does this happen? What causes it? How should it be
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Severe Drought Hits Multiple Regions, Rising Agricultural Prices May Benefit Grain Companies
It was learned from the consultation meeting recently held by the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters that since the beginning of summer, precipitation has been below normal in the northwest, north China, the Huang-Huai region, the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and parts of the southwest, with severe drought occurring in some provinces and autonomous regions. Specifically, on July 28, Henan and Shaanxi provinces both activated a Level III drought relief emergency response, with Henan Province experiencing its most severe drought in 63 years. In addition, severe drought has also occurred in the Huaibei area of Anhui Province, which has already mobilized more than 300,000 people for drought relief.
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Ministry of Commerce monitoring shows ginseng prices keep rising while notoginseng keeps falling
Some are happy, some are worried. Of the 29 medicinal materials included in the statistical scope in 2013, 9 saw year-on-year price increases and 11 saw year-on-year price declines. Among them, the price of ginseng soared 80% year on year, while notoginseng fell by more than 30%. The above information comes from the latest release by the Ministry of Commerce
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Rising Risk of Corn Price Pullback, Tight Supply of High-Quality Grain May Ease
Since June and July, corn futures prices have risen sharply, driven by drought weather and tight supply of high-quality grain, with the near-month 1409 contract showing the most pronounced trend. In the short two months to the end of August, corn 1409 rose about 14.58%, and 1501 rose about 4.35%. The earlier rapid
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Has the severe drought caused olive oil prices to rise?
Olive oil consumption growth in the Chinese market outpaces other edible oils, but consumers have a low ability to distinguish it. The reporter has learned that according to reports, Spain, the world's largest exporter of olive oil, has recently been affected by a rare drought in nearly 140 years, and the oilseed analysis agency Oil World recently
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Livestock and poultry farming sentiment on the rise, 2015 market outlook favorable
As of December 31, 2014, the CSI 300 Index rose 52% in 2014, while the agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery (Shenwan) tier-one industry index rose 16% cumulatively over the same period, far underperforming the broader market. This is related to the overall national macroeconomic environment in recent years, the weak nature of the agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery industry, relatively high agricultural product capacity and inventories, slow earnings growth of listed agricultural companies, the agricultural product price cycle and expected performance of national agricultural support policies.
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Rising farming costs: the industry bids farewell to the low-cost era
Eggs are an indispensable agricultural product in our country's vegetable basket project, and in recent years the cost of laying hen farming has risen year after year. The cost of laying hen farming mainly includes feed cost, chick cost, disease prevention and treatment fees, labor cost, water and electricity fees, and depreciation of fixed assets and equipment
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Rising Temperatures Reduce Wheat Yields: It Is Not Too Late to Breed New Varieties
If adaptive measures are not taken, for every 1°C rise in temperature in the future, global wheat production could fall by 6%, which would cause a worldwide reduction of 42 million tonnes, equivalent to 1/4 of the current global wheat trade volume. In feeding the global population, wheat plays
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How to tackle rising farmland transfer prices through guidance and policy?
These days, the joy of the New Year's arrival seems invisible on the faces of those who transfer farmland; what worries them is that the days of growing grain on transferred farmland are no longer easy. Nowadays the purchase price of grain has approached the "ceiling," while the transfer price of farmland seems to rise ever higher, like a sesame stalk shooting upward.
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Grain production has had bumper harvests year after year, so why are grain prices still rising?
In 2014, China's grain output reached 1.21 trillion jin, achieving an "eleventh consecutive increase." Centering on China's grain security issue, at the joint group discussion meeting of the agriculture sector of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the committee members held a heated discussion. With inventories increasing year after year, is it possible to produce less grain? In grain
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