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Soybean meal market remains sluggish, still a long way from emerging from the cold winter
Since January, due to the favorable bumper harvest prospects in South American soybean producing regions, global soybean supply pressure has increased significantly. In mid-January, the main US soybean contract fell below the 1000 cents/bushel integer mark and continued to decline. It is expected that US soybeans will continue to test the 900 cents/bushel support level in the future. With US soybeans remaining weak, Dalian soybean meal can hardly stay unaffected and will continue to follow US soybeans downward.
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How can the livestock industry ensure supply and boost income at the same time?
In the just-concluded 2014, Xinjiang's livestock industry achieved encouraging results. According to data from the animal husbandry department, at the end of the year the region had 55.33 million head (animals) of livestock on hand, up 4.2% year on year, 59.77 million head (animals) slaughtered, up 4.5% year on year, and total annual meat output of 2.68 million
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Busy farm work at the start of spring, time for spring plowing and preparation
On February 4, workers at the tea plantation in Lushan Town, Weining County, Bijie City, Guizhou Province, loosened the soil and pulled weeds in the tea garden. That day was the "Start of Spring" among the 24 solar terms, and most parts of China began spring plowing and production, with busy scenes across the fields. Xinhua News Agency photo (by Yang Wenbin) February
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The Changing Times and Role of Peasant Identity
In 1967, a famous French sociologist named Henri Mendras wrote a book titled The End of the Peasantry. At that time, France was at the end of a period of rapid urbanization, the agricultural labor force was shrinking, and large numbers of young and middle-aged people were leaving for the cities, so the "peasants," as opposed to urban citizens,
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Rice purchase price left unchanged for the first time, production costs expected to fall
China's rice purchase price has been left unchanged for the first time since 2008. According to analysis, with agricultural product prices currently declining across the board, the comparative returns of grain will not deteriorate significantly, and production costs such as fertilizer and land are expected to fall, all of which
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Selling Russian-Grown Grain Back Home Is the Right Way to Push Agricultural Transformation
Since land in Russia is almost as cheap as cabbage, why have fewer than 20 Chinese companies engaged in cross-border farming there to date? During the interview, the reporter found the answer to this question. In fact, some experience can be replicated, but not every company can copy other kinds of experience.
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It's the right time to prepare for spring plowing - what are farmers still lacking?
After the Awakening of Insects, various parts of Shandong successively entered the stage of spring plowing production. As the saying goes, "At the first thunder of the Awakening of Insects, farming families have few idle days." Temperatures were on the high side last winter and this spring; how is the winter wheat growing now? The central "No. 1 Document" has continuously focused on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers; what hopes remain at the grassroots level? With
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Food security must never be relaxed at any time.
Recently, at a group discussion of the agriculture sector of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Ren Zhengxiao, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Director of the National Food Administration, proposed that China's food security situation should be assessed scientifically and calmly, that the hard-won sound momentum in food production should be consolidated, and that the quality and safety of food should be continuously improved.
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What are the reasons why part-time farming promotes urbanization?
The part-work part-farming model refers to a family reproduction and economic reproduction model based on the intergenerational division of labor, in which the offspring go out to work and the parents farm at home. It is so far the main livelihood method of rural families in general agricultural areas, and the part-work part-farming model is an institutional arrangement with Chinese characteristics.
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How Part-Time Farming Achieves Self-Balance for Peasant Families
I. This time, going back to my hometown for the Chinese New Year, several new buildings had appeared in the village. The young people are all working away from home, so the heavy responsibility of building houses naturally falls to the elderly. I could not help but marvel at how busy the rural elderly can be: not only farming and looking after children, but also building houses. In almost every household in the village
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