OpinionIn a CropLife column, Hua Cheng and David Li argue that Chinese crop protection suppliers are gaining routes to US growers, but retailers keep advantages that cannot be shipped in a container.
HealthChina's National Health Commission plan, reported by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service, covers food additives, cured meat, instant noodles, testing methods, food-contact materials, microbiology and radionuclides. Exporters are told to track the drafts.
CropsA report by ID Capital ranks pesticides as the most urgent source of toxic exposure in Asia. Founder Isabelle Decitre says cuts must protect farmers' yields, and points to China's targets, professional spray services, drones and IoT pest forecasting.
LivestockMeat & Livestock Australia, the Australian Meat Industry Council and the China Meat Association have signed a memorandum of understanding after an Australian delegation toured farms, feedlots and plants in Beijing, Inner Mongolia and Shandong.
AgribusinessA Lumina Intelligence survey finds 42.8% of food industry decision-makers see water scarcity as the biggest climate threat, yet only 9.6% measure water savings, a gap that could open a market for water-measuring agtech.
LivestockWith China's 55 percent tariff on Australian beef due to lift on 1 January, frozen product, much of it Wagyu, is filling China-approved cold stores, forcing some export plants to drop production days and exporters to send ships on 60-day detours.
LivestockUSDA's Beijing office says Chinese feed mills are swapping corn for wheat, barley and sorghum as hog losses push buyers toward cheaper rations.
LivestockRabobank analysts say Brazil, now the world's largest beef producer and exporter, is redirecting meat that China's quotas no longer take into markets that matter to Australian exporters.
AgrotechChina's agriculture ministry will groom 100 leading, 1,000 fast-growing and 10,000 high-potential agricultural technology companies and set 11 research priorities under the 15th Five-Year Plan, with AI to change how research is done.
It is described as the first successful use of microwave ablation for congenital pulmonary airway malformation; the mass shrank sharply within three days, though only one patient has been treated so far.
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.
