Since African swine fever struck a farm in the nearby city of Shenyang in August, the couple has racked up about 300,000 yuan (US$44,400) in debt, 10 times what they make in a good year raising pigs.
Since African swine fever struck a farm in the nearby city of Shenyang in August, the couple has racked up about 300,000 yuan (US$44,400) in debt, 10 times what they make in a good year raising pigs.
- As climate change reshapes agriculture around the world, the international trade of agricultural products will be even more important to feed the growing global population, according to a new UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report which identifies where global harvests will rise and fall by 2050 and the “winners” and “losers” in farming as the planet warms in the coming years.
The International Grains Council on Jan. 24 issued its Grain Market Report for January in which it lowered its forecast for 2018-19 world soybean production and raised its outlook for the 2018-19 corn crop. The IGC also provided other updated supply-and-demand forecasts for those crops for the current marketing year.
In the case of a hard Brexit, the import of grain from the United Kingdom (UK) will be considerably more expensive.
Our oceans are littered with plastics. Indeed, we are regularly exposed to images and stories of whales and sea turtles choking to death on plastic trash. Ocean plastic is clearly a problem but what is the solution?
At its 72nd Session, the United Nations General Assembly officially adopted a resolution declaring 2019 – 2028 as a “Decade of Family Farming”. The resolution is aimed at providing a framework for the promotion of better public policies on family farming.
8:00 am 03.11.2019 - 9:00 am 03.13.2019
First Bi-annual International Soy for Human Health Conference 2019
8:00 am 03.12.2019 - 9:00 am 03.13.2019
Skills Development Summit
8:00 am 03.12.2019 - 9:00 am 03.14.2019
CGA Citrus Summit