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For some farmers, grain-growing income is falling. How can grain sell well?
① At the drying yard of the Qixin Modern Agricultural Machinery Cooperative in Jiangqiao Township, Tailai County, Heilongjiang Province, more than 800 mu of freshly harvested corn is piled on the drying yard. The corn is currently hard to thresh, and with prices low, the cooperative plans to wait a while before looking into selling the corn. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Jianwei
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Global grain prices keep falling, and agricultural giants have no choice but to band together for warmth
As global grain prices fall and profits are squeezed, agricultural giants are seeking powerful alliances to band together for warmth in the industry's cold winter. This will be agriculture's first major transformation in more than a decade. Citing people familiar with the matter, multinational seed giant Syngenta is in talks with Du
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How big exactly is the impact of falling grain prices on agricultural inputs?
Brief overview: In October, as the new-season corn from Northeast China came onto the market in large quantities, corn prices continued the downward trend of August and September, declining further across a wide area. On September 18, the state temporary storage corn purchase listing price was set at 1 yuan/jin, up to 0.13 yuan/jin lower than last year's temporary storage price.
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Corn prices keep falling, but the truth is that Chinese farmers are still running a slight surplus
Introduction: Every year in August, it is the period when new domestic corn has not yet hit the market and the price of old corn rises slightly, but this year domestic corn prices have been sliding all the way down. On September 18, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Agricultural Development Bank and other departments jointly issued a notice that starting in November, the state temporary storage corn listing purchase price will be set at 1 yuan per jin, 0.13 yuan per jin lower than last year's temporary storage price.
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Wheat, Corn and Other Grain Prices Are Falling: How Can the Plight of Grain Farming Be Solved?
The Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences recently held a training session on the "two-deep, one-shallow" simplified cultivation technique for wheat in Matou Town, Dongming County. Photo by Cao Fengqin. Falling grain prices have once again dampened farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain. They have also had a negative impact on land transfers and large-scale operations, with signs even emerging of contractors withdrawing from leased land.
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Rising and falling agricultural product prices do not mean the government stays out; NDRC responds
The State Council Information Office held a press conference at 10 a.m. on October 21 in the press conference hall of the State Council Information Office. Xu Kunlin, director of the Price Department of the NDRC, said that so far, after deregulating the tobacco leaf purchase price, agricultural product prices are completely formed by the market, with no
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2016 wheat minimum purchase price remains unchanged, wheat prices expected to stop falling
The reporter recently learned from the National Development and Reform Commission that in order to protect farmers' interests and prevent "cheap grain hurting farmers," the government will continue to implement the minimum purchase price policy in major wheat-producing areas in 2016. Taking into comprehensive consideration factors including grain production costs, market supply and demand, domestic and international market prices, and the development of the grain industry
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Corn prices are falling, don't let farmers' hearts grow cold
Recently, the author learned through a rural survey in Neihuang County that the drop in corn prices was beyond people's expectations. Over the past five years, when new corn came onto the market, the price per jin was mostly between 1.1 yuan and 1.2 yuan. This year it has fallen to 0.9 yuan, and even at this price it is still hard to sell.
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Falling Chinese Agricultural Prices May Weigh on Global Prices
Reference News Network reported on September 21 that Japanese media said that measured by The Economist's Big Mac index, the value of China's renminbi still appears to be undervalued. Yet the prices of the ingredients used to make this hamburger present a completely different picture, namely high
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High-quality wheat prices decline amid falling demand from flour milling enterprises
Currently, the purchase price paid by grain brokers for Gaoyou 2018 is 1.30 yuan/jin, and the purchase price for Shiluan 02-1 is 1.36 yuan/jin, both down by 0.05-0.07 yuan/jin compared with the purchase prices when new wheat came onto the market in June and July, said Yang Xinshe, a wheat trader in Baixiang County, Hebei Province. Since new wheat came onto the market this year,
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