…the National Cotton Council has challenged, saying it has no merit. “American cotton growers remain under assault, and the problems just keep coming. Just last week, China announced it will…
Agri View: Cotton Producers Troubles
…because internal cotton prices are almost double the cost of polyester prices. The U.S. cotton industry highly depends on export markets such as China, but U.S. exports to China are…
Dairy Growth Could Be in Waste Stream
…and fed it to pigs and they nearly killed you trying to get it.” Gallagher says that’s what China is doing with some of our products and the U.S. milk…
Agri View: Pistachio Status
…being cultivated at a larger scale in the USA, Iran, Syria, Turkey, and China. After plantation, it takes approximately eight to ten years until the plant produces its first major…
Agri View: El Niño
…rainfall patterns (wet in portions of Kenya and Tanzania and dry in southeastern Africa and southern Madagascar), the dryness through Indonesia and northern Australia, and the rains in southeastern China….
Agri View: Soybeans, U. S. Second Largest Crop
…industrial applications. The main producers of soy are the United States (36%), Brazil (36%), Argentina (18%), China (5%) and India (4%). The beans contain significant amounts of phytic acid, alpha-linolenic…
Take On Future US Meat And Feed Grain Exports To China
China may be changing some of its agricultural policies. What could this mean for U.S. agricultural product sales to China? Take On Future US Meat And Feed Grain Exports To…
The Western View: Fake Science
…from a New York University have created a blight resistant GMO Chestnut tree – American chestnuts have been all but wiped out from a blight. In China, researchers with with…
Agri View: Farm-Raised
…June 28, 2007, FDA announced a broader import control of farm-raised catfish, basa, shrimp, dace (related to carp), and eel from China. FDA will start to detain these products at…
China Takes Step to Approve CA Strawberries
Officials from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) in China have announced the initiation of the draft protocol for export of California fresh strawberries to China….
Agri View: Pigweed Research
…thousands of years in Mexico, South America, the Caribbean, Africa, India, and China. The plant can be toxic to livestock animals due to the presence of nitrates in the leaves….
Today is National Ag Day
…Earth’s equator almost nine times! Noodles got their start in China, not Italy as many people might think. Pasta made its way to the New World through the English who…
Agri View: Oh Real Christmas Tree
…planted by farmers. North American Real Christmas Trees are grown in all 50 states and Canada. Eighty percent (80%) of artificial trees worldwide are manufactured in China, according to the…
Agri View: Foreign Trade
…of diets. (For more information, see U.S. exports of bulk and high-value products by fiscal or calendar year.) In 2012 China became the leading U.S. agricultural export destination, replacing Canada….