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Corn prices remain stable but weak, industry views and interpretation
Corn prices remain stable but weak. Entering July, from the perspective of the large domestic corn market, short-term market supply is sufficient, downstream demand remains weak, temporary storage auctions continue to be sluggish, the north-south port price inversion is severe, and corn substitutes continue to capture ports and sales area markets.
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Corn prices in the second quarter generally trended weak, industry views and analysis
Corn prices generally trended weak in the second quarter. In the second quarter, the domestic corn market fully entered the temporary storage "auction season," and its overall price trend was slightly weak. At the same time, compared with last year, the "destocking" progress of temporary storage corn was slow, market demand lacked highlights, and the market confidence index declined in tandem. In the international market, bullish and bearish factors coexisted, prices first fell and then rose, and the price spread with domestic corn continued to widen. Looking ahead, as the domestic corn market enters the lean season, discussion has reappeared about whether corn prices can repeat last year's glory. However, the oversupply situation in the domestic corn market remains difficult to reverse, and it will not be easy for China's corn market to say "rise" this summer.
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Honeysuckle Market Sluggish in the New Season, Driven by Weakening Demand from Downstream End Users
Right now it is the new-harvest season for honeysuckle. In China's main honeysuckle-producing areas such as Shandong, Shaanxi, Henan and Hebei, this should be a season of abundant supply and brisk buying and selling, but our reporter has learned that this year this widely used Chinese medicinal herb seems very desolate.
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How should this weak link in poverty alleviation and development be strengthened?
"Party committees and governments at all levels must grasp the timing, strive to strengthen weak links, and scientifically plan the poverty alleviation and development work for the '13th Five-Year Plan' period, to ensure that the poor population is lifted out of poverty on schedule by 2020." Recently, at a symposium of principal responsible comrades of party committees of some provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities held in Guizhou,
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Reasons for the Weakening of Farmers' Subject Status in Rural Cultural Construction
Rural cultural construction is an important component of national cultural construction, and both the key points and the difficulties of national cultural construction lie in rural areas. It can be said that without the improvement of farmers' cultural level, without the improvement of the conditions for rural cultural construction, and without the development and prosperity of rural culture, there
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New Wheat Hits the Market as Consumption Weakens; May Import Volume May Decline
Due to weak wheat consumption in China, favorable prospects for new wheat production and the gradual market launch, China's wheat imports in May are expected to decline. Wheat imports for the 2014/2015 marketing year are forecast at 1.2 million tons. This week, wheat in parts of Hunan, Jiangsu, Anhui and Henan has already
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Industry Viewpoint: Short-Term Corn Prices Will Run Weak
Industry data monitoring shows that since mid-July, corn prices in North China had already seen a slight decline. Entering August, prices fell off a cliff, and the subsequent short-term rebound did not last long. The industry calls this a "continuous plunge" in corn prices, and the corn price-cutting storm is sweeping across the country. Corn
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Wheat reserve auctions see rebound in sales, but new wheat prices remain weak
According to market monitoring, since new wheat entered the market in 2015, national reserve wheat auctions have remained sluggish because the reserve wheat has no price advantage and processing demand is weak. According to statistics, as of early August, a total of 12,971,714 tons of grain sources had been offered, with actual sales of 385,678 tons, an average
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An In-Depth Analysis of the Direction of Agricultural Policy Transformation
That agriculture possesses inherent weaknesses is one of the main reasons many people cite for why agriculture must be protected. However, agricultural protection can at best mitigate the negative effects of agriculture's inherent weaknesses; it cannot eliminate them. From international experience, only the development of modern agriculture can make
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Why Are Corn Prices Weak? Ample Supply in Sales Areas, Social Inventories Still Being Released
I. Spot Market Northeast Production Areas: Outbound shipments from production areas temporarily stable; spring planting underway in Heilongjiang Currently, traders in Northeast production areas are still releasing inventory, and outbound prices remain stable compared with last week. At present, grain sources in the hands of farmers in Liaoning and Inner Mongolia are basically sold out, while some villages in Jilin and Heilongjiang still have corn for sale, but farmers' asking prices are relatively high, traders' current purchasing willingness is not strong, and buying and selling are sluggish. Regarding spring planting, all Northeast regions except Heilongjiang have completed spring planting, and seedling emergence in Jilin and Inner Mongolia is good. Rainfall this week effectively alleviated the earlier drought in Liaoning. In eastern and northern Heilongjiang, planting was delayed due to low temperatures earlier, and spring planting work is still underway.
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