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China In-Country Analysis

Cultural History April Kicks Off with Annual Qingming Festival or Ancestors’ Day China’s domestic market began the first full week of April on a subdued note with the Qingming holiday or Tomb-Sweeping Day falling on Tuesday. This resulted in much of the country taking a long-weekend break to visit with family and pay respects to their ancestors who have passed on to the afterlife. The colloquial term – Tomb-Sweeping Day – illustrates exactly what occurs, as China’s citizens from all walks of life pay respect to their ancestors by sweeping their tombs and gravesites and then providing offerings of tea, food, and other gifts as an act of the Confucian tradition of filial piety. The holiday is not confined to Ch...

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Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt has said that it will no longer import any shipments of grain exported by Russia from the occupied areas of Ukraine. Egypt has increased its purchase price for local wheat by about 11 percent in order to increase domestic pu...

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Middle East, Mediterranean, and Africa Regional Analysis

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Livestock Industry Margins

Beef packer margins reversed sharply to -$17/head from $120/head the prior week, as rising fed cattle prices more than offset a modest decline in the Choice cutout. Fed cattle prices increased $12.92/cwt from the prior week while the cutout slipped $3.24/cwt, compressing gross margins and pushi...

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