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New wheat purchase progress slow, market prices remain stable
New wheat purchase progress slow, prices stable. Last week new wheat entered the concentrated purchase period, with purchase progress slowing compared with last year, and the minimum purchase price policy dominating the market. Later, as large volumes of new wheat from the main producing areas come onto the market, the supply pressure of grain sources in the circulation market will gradually become prominent; at present, the policy-based purchase progress in the main producing areas is clearly lagging behind the same period last year, which also weakens its squeezing effect on the circulation market, and terminal demand will remain weak in the short term, making it difficult for wheat prices to gain obvious upward momentum.
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South floods and north drought strike: respond actively to ensure stable grain output and increased income
The main flood season has now arrived. Affected by the El Niño event, global meteorological disasters are frequent and widespread, China's severe convective weather is widespread, intense, and accompanied by heavy hail damage, rainstorms are frequent in the south, persistent high temperatures have occurred in some northern areas, and precipitation and temperatures in some regions have broken historical extremes
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Ministry of Agriculture: Striving to Keep Winter Wheat Area Stable at 338 Million Mu in 2015
According to Xinhua News Agency, Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong said on September 22 that efforts will be made to keep the winter wheat area stable at 338 million mu this year, and the winter rapeseed area stable at around 100 million mu. Yu Xinrong said at the national autumn and winter planting work video conference held here that autumn and winter planting is the beginning of agricultural
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Corn prices in sales areas remain stable, with market buying and selling relatively quiet
Corn prices in sales areas stable with quiet buying and selling. Currently, the overall buying and selling in corn sales area markets is quiet, with quotations mainly stable and slight rises and falls in some areas. Affected by the temporary reserve auction and the North Port's higher-price purchasing, corn from Northeast China has seen quotations in sales areas rise by 10 yuan/ton; in North China, due to emptying warehouses to collect wheat, short-term market supply is ample, and arrival prices in sales areas are mostly stable, but in some areas of Henan, due to grain quality issues, quotations in sales areas have fallen by 40 yuan/ton compared with the beginning of the month. At present, the use of substitute grains has increased noticeably, but recent market rumors that the state will strengthen ongoing and post-event supervision of imported grain and epidemic monitoring may have a certain impact on imported substitute grains.
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Farm input prices are stable with a slight decline, what else do farmers care about when farming?
Editor's note: In order to promptly understand the situation of spring farming preparations for major crops such as grain, cotton, oil and sugar, as well as the market supply and prices of farm inputs and prominent problems, the Information Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, in mid-April, together with the information centers of the agriculture departments (commissions) of ten provinces (regions) including Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, Guang
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China's annual corn imports remain stable
According to the May global grain market trade report released by the United States Department of Agriculture, China's corn imports in 2015/16 are expected to remain stable at 3 million tons, because domestic corn production is expected to hit a record high, domestic stocks are sufficient, and the government encourages traders to purchase domestic corn
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New-season wheat is in the grain-filling stage, old-crop wheat prices remain stable
In May 2015, new-season wheat was in the critical period of yield formation; the wheat production situation will have an important impact on the domestic wheat market in the new year, and will also become an important basis for whether the minimum purchase price policy for domestic wheat can be activated this year and the scope of its activation. In the new market environment
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Corn market in Q2 may show a pattern of weakness in the north and stability in the south
Corn in Q2 may show a pattern of weakness in the north and stability in the south. In April, after the overall obvious rise in March, the domestic corn market price showed a trend of slowing gains, overall stabilization and local pullbacks. Specifically: in early April, domestic corn continued the post-Spring Festival rise. In mid-to-late April, under the influence of multiple factors such as the temporary storage corn purchase approaching its end, persistently sluggish auction transactions and overall market demand falling into a "predicament", domestic corn market prices showed a "general decline" pattern.
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Southern japonica rice prices expected to keep falling; indica rice market remains stable
Since April, the volume of policy rice and reserve rice of all levels released from warehouses in the main southern japonica rice producing areas has increased markedly, boosting market supply; however, as temperatures rise, market demand for rice tends to weaken. At present, japonica rice prices in some southern regions have begun to decline, but due to
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Domestic fertilizer demand to remain stable or rise slightly this year
On April 14, the "2015 Sulfur and Fertilizer Market Seminar," hosted by the China Sulfuric Acid Industry Association and the China Phosphate and Compound Fertilizer Industry Association, was held in Beijing. More than 150 people attended the meeting, including leaders of relevant national ministries and commissions and representatives of leading enterprises in the industry. The meeting held that during the accelerated period of policy adjustment in our country,
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