LivestockAustralia shipped 132,146 tonnes of beef in September and a record 1.209 million tonnes in nine months, as the US, Japan, Korea and Canada took up the slack from China's 55% safeguard tariff.
LivestockChina's new National Livestock and Veterinary Industry Development Plan sets 15 targets but none for total meat output, and calls for faster use of artificial intelligence and smart livestock farming.
AgrotechNearly 30 foreign journalists toured farms and machinery makers in Heilongjiang, where a 1,000-hectare farm runs driverless harvesters, plant-protection drones and a real-time field monitoring platform.
FisheriesChina's agriculture ministry will merge its marine ranching and deep-sea aquaculture equipment projects into a single category of offshore ranching projects under the 15th Five-Year Plan.
CropsUSDA estimates put Brazilian soybeans landed in Shanghai at about $479 to $507 a tonne in the second quarter, below US Gulf and Pacific Northwest routes, and Brazil shipped about ten times as much.
FisheriesChina doubled its Antarctic krill catch to a record 231,083 tonnes last year and is building ships and processing parks, mostly to make feed for fish and pig farms, as scientists warn krill numbers are falling.
AgrotechResearchers in China edited the promoter of rice's Waxy gene to cut amylose by up to 3.95 percentage points, giving softer cooked rice without changing yield-related traits in field tests.
US pork and beef have been placed on a list of products expected to get improved trade treatment from China, a step the Meat Institute says lays the ground for tackling high retaliatory tariffs.
AgrotechImran Afzal of the UK's National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre says China built scale-up infrastructure before demand arrived, while British food tech start-ups often have to go abroad to prove their products at scale.
A Peking University team says water passed over sunlight-activated minerals raised yields of rice, wheat, sugar cane and sweet potato in field trials, but the figures have not been independently reviewed.
AgribusinessChina's National Bureau of Statistics put 95% glyphosate technical at 27,092.9 yuan a tonne in mid-September, up 1,617.9 yuan from early in the month, pointing to tighter herbicide supply into the last quarter.
VegetablesVietnam, reliant on imports and short of data on its own garlic crop, proposes cooperation with China on cultivation, joint breeding and processing, while promoting premium Ly Son garlic.
LivestockWith Australia's 205,000-tonne China quota filled in June and a 55 percent tariff now applying, talks are under way to transfer some of Uruguay's large unused 324,000-tonne allocation before the year ends.
