China Continues to Spend on Farmland Improvement China's Ministry of Finance (MOF) recently announced that the government will invest $5.9 billion this year to improve the quality of farmland. The fund, as part of national's comprehensive agricultural development plan, comes from both the central and local budgets.The fund targets improving 1.3 million hectares of medium-low yield land and building 887,300 hectares of high-quality farmland by the end of 2012. The investment also will support the improvements for 45 water conservation projects in medium-sized irrigation districts. The projects will add or improve irrigation on 1.72 million hectares of land. According to the MOF, this farmland improvement could boost the nation's grain and o...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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