Touch the Soil News #1740 (Feature Photo – corn – public domain USDA) China got the world’s attention this week as it purchased 3.72 million tonnes of corn from the U.S. this week. That would take roughly 850,000 acres of farmland to produce – a farm that is 10 miles wide and 135 miles long.…
Touch the Soil News #1479 (Feature photo – pigs – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International) China is fighting an almost losing battle with the African Swine Fever and the nations withering pork supplies. Estimates are that China may have to cull over 200 million pigs this year. In attempts to fill the shortages and…
Touch the Soil News #1368 (Feature photo – Beef Cattle – Public Domain) Years ago, a friend of mine in the real estate lending business was commenting how the use of concrete in China was raising the price of concrete all over the world – prophetic words. China, the world’s largest pork producer and consumer,…
