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Chinese buyers have bought between 400,000 and 500,000 tonnes of wheat from Australia and Canada in recent weeks as heat waves threaten to damage crops in China’s farming areas, traders said. China is the world’s largest wheat producer and also imports large volumes of the grain when domestic supply falls short of demand. Earlier this week, Henan province, which accounts for about a third of China’s harvest, issued a risk warning as hot, dry weather threatens its wheat fields. Chinese buyers have bought four or five 55,000-tonne shipments of wheat from Australia for delivery in July or August and about 200,000 tonnes from Canada, sources at two major trading firms in Australia said. The wheat is milling quality. The orders from Australia are China’s first from the country since last year, one trader said. State-owned Chinese company COFCO, which handles most of the country’s wheat imports, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. China has been one of the ...

The Chinese government is preparing to remove the United States from its list of corn and sorghum suppliers with the help of South American producers of both grains. This week, a delegation of Chinese corporate executives visited Buenos Aires to meet with peers from various strategic sectors, one of which—of course—was the agroindustrial sector. The delegation included representatives from Sinograin and China CO-OP Cereals and Oils. Unusually, the Chinese trade mission was not notified by any official Argentine agency to avoid—probably—generating friction with the Donald Trump administration. Of course, official Chinese media did report on the event. The visit coincides with a recent acceleration in frenetic registrations of Argentine soybean shipments to China, which is perfectly expected in seasonal terms. But the most notable aspect of China's rapprochement is the goal of removing the US from the list of grain suppliers, for which the government led by Xi Jinping requires ...

World rice prices have fallen to multi-year lows as the currency of India, the world’s largest rice exporter, strengthens, while large Indian stocks and a strong harvest in Asia will limit any price increases this year. While lower rice prices benefit price-sensitive consumers in Africa and elsewhere, they could further erode the already low incomes