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Major grain traders’ e-transaction platform gets name

By GFM Staff December 5, 2019

The blockchain-based global commodity transaction platform being developed by six of the world’s biggest agrifood firms is moving ahead with a new name and project leader. The six companies — ADM, Bunge, Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, Cofco and Glencore Agriculture — announced Wednesday the project will be named Covantis, and have hired former ADM executive Stefano […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Louis Dreyfus could consider selling stake to regional player

By Reuters May 3, 2019

Paris | Reuters — Louis Dreyfus Co., one of the world’s biggest agricultural commodities houses, may consider selling a stake to a regional player to support its development although there are no specific plans to do so, the company said Friday. Agricultural commodities traders have been grappling with lower profits from sourcing and shipping commodities […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm on new China sales, shrinking Brazil crop

By Karl Plume February 4, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures edged higher on Monday on renewed Chinese demand for U.S. shipments and worries about a smaller Brazilian soy crop, but gains were limited by abundant global supplies and an uncertain outcome to Sino-U.S. trade talks. The extended Chinese market closure for the Lunar New Year also kept prices […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

U.S. grains: Soybeans end near decade low as trade war deepens

By Karl Plume July 11, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. soybean futures dropped to contract lows on Wednesday and the most active contract closed at the lowest in nearly 10 years as an escalating trade war with China stoked worries about long-term export demand from the world’s top importer of the oilseed. Favourable crop weather in the U.S. Midwest weighed […] Read more

Crops, Reuters, Soybeans

China signals to state giants: ‘Buy American’ oil and grains

By Dominique Patton, Florence Tan, Hallie Gu May 23, 2018

Singapore/Beijing | Reuters –– China will import record volumes of U.S. oil and is likely to ship more U.S. soy after Beijing signalled to state-run refiners and grains purchasers they should buy more to help ease tensions between the two top economies, trade sources said on Wednesday. China pledged at the weekend to increase imports […] Read more

Canola, Crops, Markets, Reuters

China’s Cofco seeks larger Canadian canola volumes

By Rod Nickel November 15, 2017

Winnipeg | Reuters — State-owned Chinese agribusiness Cofco Corp. looks to buy 2.5 million tonnes of Canada’s canola crop next year, a boost of more than one-third over its expected purchases this year as its Canadian office gets established, said the company’s global head of softseeds on Wednesday. Cofco opened its Canadian trading office in […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

China’s Cofco to partner with Growmark on U.S. grain supply

By Reuters August 18, 2017

Reuters — China’s state-owned Cofco International Ltd. (CIL) and U.S. farm co-operative Growmark on Friday announced a new grain supply partnership which they say will enhance links between U.S. grain production areas and global markets, including China. The partnership is the latest expansion move by CIL after it invested US$3 billion to buy Noble Group’s […] Read more

Cereals, Crops

China shipping wheat flour to Canada

By Alberta Farmer Staff December 7, 2016

Chinese state-owned agrifood firm Cofco says it has scored its first-ever international sale of wheat flour — into the Canadian market. Cofco, which said in June it plans to open a Canadian grain trading office in Winnipeg, recently announced it had loaded a container ship at the northeastern port of Dalian on Nov. 17 with […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Markets, Reuters

China approves corn export permits to two companies

By Reuters September 30, 2016

Beijing | Reuters –– China has given approval to at least two companies to export corn, two sources with knowledge of the matter said, in a radical move by the world’s No. 2 producer to cut its ballooning surplus that could add more supply to a saturated global market. The move threatens to push U.S. […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

China’s COFCO to open Canadian grain office by autumn

By Reuters June 28, 2016

Winnipeg | Reuters — China’s COFCO Agri will open a Canadian crop trading office in Winnipeg by the time farmers harvest their new crops, the state-owned agricultural trader said Tuesday. The new office, which Reuters reported earlier this month, will focus on trading canola and its processed products oil and meal, as well as wheat, […] Read more

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Major grain traders’ e-transaction platform gets name

Louis Dreyfus could consider selling stake to regional player

U.S. grains: Soybeans firm on new China sales, shrinking Brazil crop

U.S. grains: Soybeans end near decade low as trade war deepens

China signals to state giants: ‘Buy American’ oil and grains

China’s Cofco seeks larger Canadian canola volumes

China’s Cofco to partner with Growmark on U.S. grain supply

China shipping wheat flour to Canada

China approves corn export permits to two companies

China’s COFCO to open Canadian grain office by autumn

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