China bought about $839 million of U.S. sorghum in 2017, accounting for a whopping 80% of U.S. sorghum exports.
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SORGHUM China began buying U.S. sorghum, which it uses for production of baiju liquor and animal feed, in 2008.
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SORGHUM China began buying U.S. sorghum, which it uses for production of baiju liquor and animal feed, in 33.
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Oklahoma farmer Zach Rendel said corn prices were stronger than sorghum partially due to China's anti-dumping action against sorghum.
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Some U.S. farmers scrapped plans to plant sorghum this spring, opting for corn instead, after China's probe halted U.S. sorghum imports.
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A Chinese sorghum buyer not participating in the trip told Reuters that U.S. prices will decline as more sorghum is harvested.
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China has also been a major purchaser of sorghum, but an anti-dumping investigation in Beijing has slammed the sorghum trade.
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Also on the menu were tortillas made from sorghum - rather than wheat or corn - and duck, which is fed sorghum in China.
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China is the biggest buyer of U.S. sorghum, and the exit of Chinese buyers from the market caused sorghum prices to fall.
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In Garden City, Kansas, where sorghum and corn compete for demand, sorghum was fetching about $3.48 per bushel and corn about $3.78 per bushel.
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"Sorghum is trading at par with wheat at about $255 a ton in Brisbane, normally sorghum is about $20 cheaper than wheat," the analyst said.
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In Garden City, Kansas, where sorghum and corn compete for demand, sorghum was fetching $3.37 per bushel and corn about $3.67 per bushel last week.
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An expansion in sorghum acreage in the Plains in 2015 played a role, as some sorghum acres were harvested too late to allow for wheat planting.
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"It's still a good price for them even with the tariff," said Don Bloss, a Nebraska sorghum farmer and past chairman of the National Sorghum Producers.
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China has now lifted the duty on U.S. sorghum and stopped its antidumping investigation, but the damage has been done to U.S. sorghum producers and exporters.
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China, the world's top sorghum buyer, bought about $839 million of U.S. sorghum in 2017, most of which was shipped in the months after the autumn harvest.
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The Naked Biscuit Sorghum, a slightly sweet drink made with sorghum, is the best-seller, and the space has a cast concrete bar where customers can imbibe.
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Despite the overtures to the world's top sorghum buyer, no deals were struck over the meal, held at the home of the head of the Texas Sorghum Producers.
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"Sorghum imports were low also because prices of U.S. sorghum were not really competitive and the government here was trying to reduce huge stocks of corn," the trader said.
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China launched the investigation into imports of sorghum from the United States on Sunday, a move that is expected to immediately hit demand for the upcoming U.S. sorghum crop.
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The Chinese delegation, which Sorghum Checkoff said represents importers that account for more than half of China's total sorghum imports from the United States, will travel to Kansas next week.
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Archer Daniels Midland Co, which has threatened legal action against China after several of its sorghum shipments were caught up in the dispute, said it was selling sorghum to ethanol producers.
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Wayne Cleveland, executive director of Texas Sorghum Producers, an industry group, said he was fielding calls from sorghum growers and grain elevators seeking to confirm the USDA report of China's purchase.
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But Kent Winter, who farms outside Wichita, Kansas, and is president of the Kansas Grain Sorghum Producers Association, was planning to double his sorghum plantings when the latest trade talks were announced.
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Nu Life shipped its first sorghum cargo to China last year - a 21-tonne shipment that was a test for customers who use sorghum to produce the fiery Chinese liquor bijou, Roemer said.
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The next U.S. sorghum crop will be harvested in August.
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Until the 20th century they mostly ate sorghum and millet.
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One alternative, sorghum, was also dragged into the trade war.
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If the zombies attack, it only indirectly impacts the sorghum.
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It exports $494 million in the grain sorghum to China.
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About 23.48 miles away in the northwestern part of the state, farmer Janet Bear swapped the sorghum seed she ordered for corn, after top importer China slapped steep anti-dumping investigation into U.S. sorghum.
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The National Sorghum Producers, a U.S. industry trade group, submitted thousands of pages of information to China's authorities to show that the United States was not dumping sorghum, the group's Chairman Don Bloss said.
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The delegation heads to Kansas next week for meetings with top U.S. sorghum exporters, including Archer Daniels Midland Co , Cargill Inc and Gavilon, a unit of Marubeni Corp, participants and other sorghum traders said.
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The 179 percent tariff would nearly double the price of U.S. sorghum in China relative to other countries, like Australia, that China could import from, effectively cutting off all U.S. sorghum exports to China.
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At an EPA headquarters event with lawmakers from sorghum-heavy states and industry representatives, Wheeler signed a final regulation to approve new RFS "pathways" using sorghum oil, a byproduct of producing ethanol from the grain.
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Cargill Inc will also attend, participants and other sorghum traders said.
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He said sorghum was trading even with wheat prices in Brisbane.
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Wheat and sorghum use nearly quadrupled, to about 13 million pounds.
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Australia likely supplied all of last month's sorghum imports, he added.
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Still, ethanol producers using sorghum for biofuel are reducing corn demand.
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That accounted for a whopping 80 percent of U.S. sorghum exports.
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Mexico, another big market for U.S. sorghum, has been canceling sales.
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Last year, China bought about $1.1 billion worth of U.S. sorghum.
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In fact, American sorghum destined for China is now in limbo.
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For China, the tariff situation has made Australian sorghum more attractive.
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Superfoods from the region include moringa, tamarind, sorghum, fonio, and millet.
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In 2017, China bought about $1.1 billion worth of U.S. sorghum.
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Amid the trade fight, Chinese imports of sorghum spiked in April.
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Remove wings from oven and toss in chili honey sorghum glaze.
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Sorghum prices at the Texas Gulf have slipped since China's announcement.
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China also buys lots of American pork, sorghum and other products.
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Other American grains like corn and sorghum have also been affected.
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These crops included wild bananas, lentils, chickpeas, potatoes, sorghum, and carrots.
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"Certainly those buyers had spoken for a lot of U.S. sorghum that ended up in other countries and they did not get it," said Tim Lust, chief executive of National Sorghum Producers, a U.S. industry association.
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"Many believe that this is a one-off thing, but if the U.S. producers sell sorghum at cheaper prices than corn, Japanese feedmakers may buy more sorghum and buy less corn or wheat," the source said.
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The big picture: Sorghum growers and exporters were caught in the middle of a U.S. and Chinese trade policy fight so volatile that it stranded sorghum-laden American ships before they reached their destinations in China.
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Before China announced its anti-dumping probe, U.S. sorghum exports were on track to be the biggest since 2015, led by sales to China, where sorghum is used to feed hogs and make the alcoholic beverage baijiu.
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"China this past month initiated an antidumping investigation on sorghum grains from the US. China imported over a billion USD of sorghum in 2016," Adams Lee, an international trade lawyer at Harris Bricken, said in an email.
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Ronzoni has created a pasta with amaranth, millet, quinoa, sorghum and teff.
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Both cotton and sorghum need less water than soybeans, corn or wheat.
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China began importing large amounts of sorghum from the US in 2014.
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He wants sorghum, a grain that could drastically improve their food situation.
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China's move on U.S. sorghum is independent from the current Sino-U.
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Agricultural exports such as soybeans, sorghum, oranges, seafood, pork, poultry and beef.
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The robot scans the stalks of sorghum, photographs them, looking for disease.
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The beauty of sorghum is that it can grow just about anywhere.
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We're hearing jackfruit, sorghum and harissa are about to have their moment.
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Sorghum is used in livestock feed and the fiery Chinese liquor baijiu.
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Out came phones, pictures and rounds of baijiu, a sorghum-based spirit.
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Mexico is a major buyer of U.S. corn, soybeans, sorghum and wheat.
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We're hearing jackfruit, sorghum and harissa could have their moments in 2017.
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It also launched an investigation into sorghum exports from the United States.
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USDA did not report any sorghum use in ethanol in August 2015.
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Reuters reports that 20 ships carrying more than 85033 million tons of U.S. sorghum are currently at sea, with at least five of them announcing new courses after China's government announced a new tariff on sorghum Tuesday morning.
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Reuters reports that 20 ships carrying more than 1.2 million tons of U.S. sorghum are currently at sea, with at least five of them announcing new courses after China's government announced a new tariff on sorghum Tuesday morning.
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Sorghum was one of the first casualties of the U.S.-China trade war.
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The strong, colourless spirit, which is usually made from sorghum, outsells vodka worldwide.
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Mitsui & Co purchased some of the sorghum from that vessel, the source said.
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The fall armyworm could also impact sugarcane, millet and sorghum crops, he added.
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Crops that use a different form of photosynthesis are maize, sugarcane and sorghum.
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They have cultivated bitter-tasting sorghum, which birds don't like but brewers do.
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Sorghum is mainly used in livestock feed and the fiery Chinese liquor baijiu.
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Some of the sorghum is expected to replace corn in animal feed rations.
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In other places millet, teff, sorghum, cassava or sweet potatoes are more important.
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It exited deals for 114,000 tonnes of sorghum to be shipped by Aug.
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China also could buy U.S. rice, poultry, grain sorghum and wheat, Perdue said.
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"In the olden days, we grew up eating rapoko and sorghum," he said.
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Trade blows re-charted the ships of sorghum into a highly unorthodox path.
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Mexico has traditionally been the second-largest buyer of U.S. sorghum after China.
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In exchange for their labor, they receive compensation in the form of sorghum.
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Beijing said Friday it was ending an investigation into imports of U.S. sorghum.
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China has made other modest purchases of sorghum since the beginning of June.
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As a main course we're served beef and sorghum—a type of grain.
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However, those countries and others in the region are small importers of sorghum.
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The Radabaughs gave Mr. Costello and Ms. Dawson sorghum seeds two years ago.
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U.S. producers annually export an average of $1.5 billion of sorghum to China.
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They are sold for Ethiopian birr or traded for sorghum that can cooked.
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Monsanto's global sorghum breeding business will be a part of the joint venture called Innovative Seed Solutions LLC, which will initially be focused on sorghum, a drought-tolerant grain crop that is used as animal feed and to produce ethanol biofuel.
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Conestoga Energy Partners LLC bought trains full of sorghum that were initially destined for export terminals on the Texas coast, with sorghum priced at roughly 90 percent the value of corn, said Jason Dale, a grain buyer for the company.
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Seaboard feeds sorghum to hogs in part because it makes their belly fat firmer and whiter, which is preferred by customers in Japan, said Earl Roemer, who chaired the research committee for the United Sorghum Checkoff Program, an industry group.
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I have another carrot-and-sorghum salad (I made two when I meal prepped).
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You should knock… • Cliffs Notes Recap: People need people, and don't sleep on sorghum.
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The media agency added that companies are looking for soybeans, cotton, pork and sorghum.
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This week China imposed a deposit of 179% on imports of sorghum from America.
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Direct payments to farmers of soybeans, sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, dairy and hogs. 2.
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A new Kashi cereal features popped sorghum, crispy yellow peas and smashed red beans.
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Like the U.S. aluminum investigation, China's commerce ministry investigation into sorghum was self-initiated.
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The investigation into sorghum dumping will be carried out for the period from Nov.
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China imports sorghum for use in livestock feed and to manufacture the liquor baijiu.
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"All I can say is demand is down on sorghum," another U.S. trader said.
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And U.S. sorghum farmers should not be paying the price for this larger fight.
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China has also threatened new duties for soybeans, cotton, wheat, corn, sorghum and beef.
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Some of the sorghum shipments eventually got rerouted to Saudi Arabia, Japan and Spain.
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There are few vegetables in the market – families live mainly on sorghum and beans.
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The program covers 29 commodity crops, including soybeans, corn, wheat, sorghum and upland cotton.
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President Trump's tariffs have provoked retaliatory levies on American pork, beef, soybeans and sorghum.
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Red-flint cornbread, baked in an iron skillet, gets its minerally sweetness from sorghum.
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Mark W. got out of the truck and went stomping through the sorghum fields.
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U.S. sorghum shipments to China also have slowed from a record last marketing year.
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Affected agricultural products also include U.S. corn, beef, cotton, tobacco, sorghum and orange juice.
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Like the U.S. aluminium investigation, China's commerce ministry investigation into sorghum was self-initiated.
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Ma Wenfeng, an analyst at Beijing Orient Agribusiness Consultant, said hitting sorghum was a relatively painless move for China because the main reason for large imports was inflated grain prices set by the Chinese government that had made US sorghum relatively cheaper.
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Florentino Lopez, executive director of the United Sorghum Checkoff, an industry group, said Chinese buyers at the dinner were concerned U.S. farmers may cut back on sorghum plantings because of the trade war, which could tighten up supplies available for sale next year.
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In April, China forced U.S. sorghum exporters to put up a 178.6 percent deposit on the value of sorghum shipments to the country after launching an investigation in February following Trump's imposition of steep tariffs on imports of solar panels and washing machines.
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GrainCorp also said ongoing drought in eastern Australia "significantly" impacted summer crop production, especially sorghum.
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The loss of Chinese buying has pushed sorghum prices lower and hurt farmers in Texas.
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An abundance of other available feeds, especially U.S. corn, was also limiting interest in sorghum.
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USDA cited increased sorghum exports as the reason for more corn being used for ethanol.
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China brought in 450,000 tonnes of sorghum in June, up from last year's 324,301 tonnes.
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China has also implemented duties on other U.S. farm goods, including pork and grain sorghum.
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Sorghum, which Americans have long fed to livestock, is also creeping onto menus for people.
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This stopped American exports, which account for almost all sorghum entering China, in their tracks.
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The company switched an ethanol plant in Texas that was running on corn to sorghum.
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"China will take more feed grains, barley and sorghum to replace U.S. supplies," Gorbachov said.
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"Millet and sorghum are the crops for survival in this time of drought," he said.
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Earlier this year, sorghum fetched as much as $4.80 per bushel, according to Reuters data.
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Kharif crops include rice, maize, sorghum and cotton, and are planted during the monsoon season.
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This happened when Chinese importers canceled shipments of U.S. sorghum in April over new tariffs.
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Trump's recent trade feud with China, however, prompted prices of grain sorghum to plummet 25%.
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Bature, which also brews lighter ales, uses Nigerian sorghum for malting mixed with imported hops.
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Meantime, Beijing on Friday announced it would drop its anti-dumping case against U.S. sorghum.
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"It's not safe," she said, tossing handfuls of sorghum into a pot of boiling water.
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The cotton and sorghum monsoon crops had failed, and the village well was nearly dry.
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In return, China has floated retaliation on United States exports of airplanes, sorghum and soybeans.
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Sorghum is a type of grain that is mostly used in China to feed livestock.
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With a friend, the two couples turn the sorghum into syrup using a traditional press.
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If and when it does escalate, they start targeting let's say soybeans, sorghum, Boeing, car.
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Dairy Farmers of America gave Marshall $2,153, while the National Sorghum Producers gave him $2,000.
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The program includes cash for farmers of soybeans, sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, dairy and hogs.
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Sorghum is widely grown because it is a hardy crop that can withstand the hot climate.
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Earlier this year, sorghum there fetched as much as $4.80 per bushel, according to Reuters data.
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He planted 900 acres of sorghum last year and will only plant 100 acres this year.
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It put Salamanca, previously a farming town in a sea of sorghum fields, on the map.
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Monsanto declined to comment on how long it had been negotiating the sorghum deal with Remington.
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A Remington subsidiary will take full ownership of Monsanto's U.S. sorghum production facility in Dumas, Texas.
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Some supplies are also sourced from Queensland, where the ethanol is made from the grain sorghum.
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Texas and Kansas, major Republican strongholds or "red states", produce most of the U.S. sorghum crop.
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"As for sorghum and barley, global prices were not very attractive, which curbed buying," Zhang said.
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Growing more sorghum, millet and other small grains is part of Zimbabwe's national climate change policy.
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China is the world's top importer of sorghum, which it feeds to its huge livestock sector.
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Dhondy's breakthrough came when she made an apple crumble with sorghum which she called "mind blowing".
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The company created edible spoons made of rice, wheat or sorghum to help curb plastic waste.
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Sorghum used in ethanol pales in comparison to the amount of corn used to make biofuel.
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Grant Morgan, a hog producer in southwest Kansas, is waiting for sorghum prices to fall further.
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Sorghum license agreement Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Bengaluru Newsroom +1-646-646-8780)
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These crops include but are not limited to barley, alfalfa and hay, sorghum, and sunflower seed.
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The sorghum levy was in response to a Chinese anti-dumping investigation that began in February.
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As things currently stand, with the exception of pork and sorghum, the impacts should be manageable.
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YOU SAW IN SORGHUM, THEY DROPPED THE CASE ON FRIDAY AS A SIGN OF GOOD FAITH.
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China is taking higher quality Australian wheat and other feed grains such as barley and sorghum.
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The big picture: China has included soybeans and sorghum on previous lists of proposed retaliatory tariffs.
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Mr. Knopf had decided to reduce his corn and sorghum acreage because soybean prices looked favorable.
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Purchases of sorghum have picked up slightly in recent weeks but are still down from 2017.
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He is also high on sorghum grain bowls for breakfast and foods grilled on a plancha.
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China's February imports of U.S. sorghum plunged 24.6 percent from a year earlier, customs figures show.
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Ms. Button's version of the (often maligned) cinnamon raisin is swirled with dried figs and sorghum.
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Sorghum farmers in the Midwest may suddenly find the Chinese market is closed to their exports.
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He added that China had booked up to 40,000 tonnes of Australian sorghum for shipment through September.
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Separately, Beijing slapped hefty anti-dumping deposits on U.S. imports of a livestock feed known as sorghum.
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It's a clear spirit made from red sorghum with a fiery taste and 53% alcohol by volume.
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Traders said Japanese firms had paid around $230 per tonne for sorghum before Beijing announced the deposit.
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The company also trades cotton, corn, barley, sorghum, soybeans, canola and other oilseeds, edible oils and meals.
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Such spending does little or nothing to help sorghum farmers in Mali or girls in rural Bangladesh.
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The aid package includes cash payments for farmers of soybeans, sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, dairy and hogs.
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China has since removed the sorghum tariffs, but by then, most farmers had made their planting choice.
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China also offered to reconsider anti-dumping duties on U.S. sorghum, according to a proposal it submitted.
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"We're seeing rumors and I think we're seeing possibly some sorghum purchases and soybean purchases," he said.
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Sales of sorghum to China that have not yet been shipped will likely be canceled, he said.
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There are 22 waterborne vessels carrying U.S. sorghum that were loaded for China, the USDA data showed.
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Since no one eats tobacco, Niyogi's team is now working on crops like rice, sorghum, and cassava.
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Several important crops that started in the tropics use it, notably maize, millet, sorghum and sugar cane.
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China imported about 4.8m tonnes of US sorghum last year, worth about $957m, according to customs data.
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While any farm state not hit by a soy tariff would be hit by a sorghum tariff.
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An elevator operated by ADM at Corpus Christi was bidding roughly $3.65 per bushel to buy sorghum.
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On the other hand, terms like "lentil" and "sorghum" did not move Dan Barron of New York.
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Traders said Japanese firms had paid around $230 per ton for sorghum before Beijing announced the deposit.
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China also uses wheat, sorghum and rice to make the biofuel in some parts of the country.
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The backdrop: Sorghum, a grain, is used to feed pigs and make a popular liquor in China.
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About 145,000 acres planted with wheat, sorghum, corn and sunflowers are in Colorado, Kansas and New Mexico.
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China filed a World Trade Ogarnization protest against what it alleged was sorghum dumping in its markets.
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Sorghum and sugarcane crops have also been impacted, he said, according to a transcript of the briefing.
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He comes from a sorghum-farming family, in a part of Oaxaca that does not produce mezcal.
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China already has stiff tariffs on DDGS imports, and is investigating U.S. sorghum imports for possible antidumping penalties.
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In addition to its use as an animal feed, sorghum can form the base of gluten-free foods.
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The effects of CO2 on protein levels are less pronounced in maize, sorghum and beans, the authors said.
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The grocer also predicts the increased use of West African cereal grains, including sorghum, fonio, teff and millet.
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Fields of mostly cotton have diversified to include water-smart sorghum, maize, pigeon peas, vegetables and also flowers.
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The National Sorghum Producers and trade group U.S. Grains Council each said they would cooperate with an investigation.
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The U.S. is China&aposs biggest supplier of sorghum, accounting for more than 90 percent of total imports.
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Though sorghum is not as dominant or as widely traded as maize or rice, it is still important.
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China&aposs U.S. sorghum imports surged from 317,000 metric tons in 2013 to 4.76 million tons last year.
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Crops like maize (corn), millet and sorghum have been particularly wrecked by the caterpillar on its new continent.
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Back then, wine made from rice and sorghum grains were used in ritual sacrifices and ceremonies, reported Xinhua.
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They have already bought enough sorghum to operate biofuel plants through July, ethanol makers and grain traders said.
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A third vessel carrying sorghum, the Stamford Eagle, changed its destination from Qingdao to Japan earlier on Thursday.
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The National Sorghum Producers, which represents U.S. farmers, maintained that the crop is not being dumped in China.
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Saudi Arabia is not a big sorghum importer, but it is the world's 10th-largest buyer of corn.
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They realize Jesus used the fireworks as a distraction and has stolen the truck full of Eugene's sorghum!
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Then, on May 18, when China subsequently scrapped a probe into sorghum, the ships puttered back on track.
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China is the top buyer of U.S. sorghum, which it uses for animal feed and to make liquor.
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The USDA plan will provide incremental support for producers of soybeans, sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, dairy and hogs.
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The output of other cereals such as sorghum, millet and buckwheat almost tripled compared to 2014, FAO said.
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Japan's sorghum imports have been declining since 20123 as cheaper alternatives took a greater share of livestock feed.
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Then, China declared that it would place an extra 179% tariff on U.S. sorghum imports on April 17.
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The sorghum robot, for example, uses navigation technology developed for driverless cars, and sensors developed for the military.
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A woman, heavily adorned in beads and bracelets, ground sorghum on a large stone in the nearby shade.
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The United States was virtually China's sole foreign source of sorghum last year, with $267 billion in sales.
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The decision, announced by China's Commerce Ministry on Sunday, could result in China imposing steep tariffs on sorghum.
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Profits were also hurt by "significant insurance settlements" among ADM's businesses tied to sorghum shipments in early 2018.
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During World War II, when sugar rations were short, sorghum sweetened her family's birthday cakes and Christmas cookies.
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China started mass importing sorghum in 2014, as a result of inflated grain prices set by China's government.
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China began buying U.S. sorghum, which it uses for production of baiju liquor and animal feed, in 2008.
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China started mass importing sorghum in 2014 as a result of inflated grain prices set by China's government.
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Livestock farming sustains many smallholder farmers here, while a few grow drought-tolerant crops like sorghum and millet.
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Colin Chopelas, who farms near the Texas port of Corpus Christi, finished harvesting his sorghum fields three weeks ago.
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Some U.S. farmers said they scrapped plans to plant sorghum, choosing corn instead, because China's probe had hurt prices.
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It may seem like only recently people developed a taste for six-inch hunks of dried fruit and sorghum.
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China also recently resumed purchases of other U.S. farm products, including soybeans and sorghum, that face retaliatory import tariffs.
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China launched the investigation on Sunday, a move expected to immediately hit demand for the upcoming U.S. sorghum crop.
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Sorghum, a much smaller crop, is even more dependent on China, which had accounted for 80% of U.S. exports.
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Sorghum and millet, which have higher tolerance to drought and heat, could replace maize in most places under threat.
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The revised estimate for corn imports was mainly due to a significant reduction in U.S. sorghum imports, it said.
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The U.S. is China&aposs biggest supplier of sorghum, accounting for more than 90 percent of its total imports.
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China also imported 560,415 tonnes of U.S. sorghum in January, the vast majority of total imports, the data showed.
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Villagers who work on constructing the systems get 50 kg (110 lb) of sorghum every month for their labor.
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Some may hold out until April or May to gauge whether they have enough soil moisture to plant sorghum.
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The deposit on sorghum comes after Beijing had already threatened a tariff on the grain along with U.S. soybeans.
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Beijing said it found the domestic industry was "substantially damaged" by U.S. sorghum imports being dumped into the country.
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With China's demand down, Gurganus is looking for other places to sell sorghum, including Mexico and U.S. ethanol plants.
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He grows corn, grain sorghum, cotton, wheat and watermelon and runs a beef cattle and 500-cow dairy operation.
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The United States is by far China's top sorghum supplier, accounting for 2340 percent of its imports last year.
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Farming yams, raising wild goats and growing sorghum for brewing bootleg beer is often their only source of income.
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China proposed tariffs on U.S. soybeans and sorghum as a political move to hit the heart of Trump country.
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Yet everywhere we were welcomed, embraced and invited to quaff chibuku, a sorghum beer popular among the less affluent.
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The meal ended with a desert of "Cloudy Whipped Cream," a lovely bowl of whipped cream and sorghum syrup.
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Then we had a feast of beef liver and sorghum beer and spent the rest of the evening dancing.
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The rich black soil of these plains is covered in cotton and sorghum, but underneath run deep coal seams.
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In return, China levied taxes on the same value of products from the United States, including soybeans and sorghum.
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He described the local pastimes as playing soccer, fighting, and drinking suwa , a kind of beer made from sorghum.
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The initial $4.7 billion of direct payments will go to corn, cotton, dairy, hog, sorghum, soybean, and wheat producers.
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Sorghum is a cereal crop that Chinese meat producers use as a cheap alternative to corn for feeding livestock.
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Early signs suggest that in this new conflict, China may target sorghum, a grain grown in Kansas and elsewhere.
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Moreover, China is hardly without options to retaliate against U.S. agricultural exports, like soybeans and sorghum, and U.S. companies.
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The dispute slowed shipments of soybeans, sorghum, pork and other agricultural products to China for more than a year.
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Kansas was the nation's largest producer of wheat and sorghum in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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The United States is by far China's top sorghum supplier, accounting for 2000 percent of its imports in 2017.
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A Chinese sorghum buyer not participating in the trip told Reuters that buying would restart if U.S. prices fall lower.
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On Friday, China dropped an anti-dumping investigation into U.S. sorghum that had raised costs for buyers of the grain.
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The direct payments are designed to provide compensation to producers of soybeans, corn, cotton, almonds, dairy, hogs, sorghum and wheat.
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Brewsters Craft, for example, makes one of its beers using sorghum grain, an ingredient found in many traditional African beers.
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Pork exports are at a nine-year low, and shipments of U.S. sorghum are down 96% from a 2015 peak.
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Both barley and sorghum are used as substitutes for corn in feeding livestock in China, the world's biggest pork producer.
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"People switched to barley in a concentrated way after the probe into sorghum was launched," a China-based trader said.
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It relates how, in 1915, Chinese officials chose to exhibit Moutai's sorghum-based spirit at an exposition in San Francisco.
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Julia Sibiya of the University of KwaZulu Natal, in Durban, meanwhile, is working on sorghum, another under-studied African crop.
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Beijing has dropped an anti-dumping investigation into imported U.S. sorghum, which it had accused the U.S. of unfairly subsidizing.
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The other crop that farmers typically turn to during periods of drought or low rainfall is the animal feed sorghum.
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U.S. agriculture, such as soybean or sorghum exports, will be a likely target if Beijing retaliates to new U.S. tariffs.
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Beijing then said it would slap a hefty temporary tariff on U.S. sorghum imports, which sent grain futures prices jumping.
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He may have ruined their sorghum, but he did save Daryl's life, and for that, he gets a free pass.
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Their glasses may have contained a special blend of Moutai, an expensive brand of baijiu, a liquor distilled from sorghum.
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Beijing imposed a tariff on U.S. sorghum on July 6 in a blow to U.S. farmers already harvesting the crop.
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The other that crop farmers typically turn to during periods of drought or low rainfall is the animal feed sorghum.
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On Tuesday, China said it would levy a 179 percent import fee on U.S. sorghum following an anti-dumping investigation.
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Recent trade tensions also simmered as investors digested China's Tuesday announcement that it would impose deposits on U.S. sorghum imports.
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To view a graphic on Japanese grain buyers purchase at least three cargoes of distressed U.S. sorghum shipments, click: reut.
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In the sorghum industry, "the producers on this side and the buyers on that side are still friends," Bloss said.
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Since 403, his glass has been filled with drafts he brewed himself, exclusively using a local African grain called sorghum.
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As Bill Gates has pointed out, unlike wheat, sorghum can survive in areas plagued by high temperatures and little rainfall.
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Hours later, the Stamford Eagle - hauling sorghum from Cargill's elevator in Houston - turned around off the western coast of Mexico.
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China was the top buyer of U.S. soybeans in 673 and a top importer of sorghum, dairy and other products.
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On Friday, the Chinese Commerce Ministry announced that the country was dropping its antidumping and antisubsidy investigation into American sorghum.
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The rings are hand-shaped, then boiled in water laced with more sorghum to give them a shiny, chewy crust.
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He packed jam and peanut butter, a sorghum drink, a little money, a blanket, and a few changes of clothes.
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KIBWEZI, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenyan farmer Sam Mung'ala once struggled to feed his family by growing cowpeas and sorghum.
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At the behest of their bosses, workers have planted sunflowers, sorghum and vegetables on about 100 acres at the mill.
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The normally brisk sorghum trade between the two countries has ground to a halt as tensions mount between Washington and Beijing.
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China launched an anti-dumping probe into sorghum in February in response to U.S. tariffs on solar panels and washing machines.
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Monsanto will continue to sell sorghum seeds via its Asgrow, Dekalb and Channel seed brands and through regional seed dealer networks.
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"The weather is not good news for summer grain crops such as sorghum," said Phin Ziebell, agribusiness economist, National Australia Bank.
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Africans imported some of its defining ingredients—okra, peanuts and sorghum, for instance—and African skills and labour produced the crops.
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But disaster was averted when a plot of drought-resistant sorghum he had also planted flourished despite a lack of water.
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Despite that drop, imports of sorghum were higher than expected, said Darin Friedrichs, risk management consultant at INTL FCStone in Shanghai.
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Before the trade war started, China bought $19.5 billion worth of farm goods in 2017, mainly soybeans, dairy, sorghum and pork.
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White maize is the main source of calories for many South Africans while sorghum is used in animal feed and alcohol.
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"The sorghum worked fantastic for the company and they want more, but not with the trading situation right now," Roemer said.
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Sorghum was one of the first casualties of the trade war, which has slowed exports of soybeans and pork to China.
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Just last week, about 116,000 tonnes of U.S. sorghum was shipped from Texas, U.S. Department of Agriculture data showed on Monday.
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A trader with an international firm estimated more than 2 million tonnes of sorghum were on the water heading for China.
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Though the fall armyworm prefers maize, it also attacked sorghum and millet, two of Cameroon's other staple crops, earlier this year.
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Although on Tuesday, China slapped U.S. imports of cereal crop sorghum with a temporary deposit as part of an antidumping probe.
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Rising temperatures made Milka Njeri, a sorghum farmer from nearby Kanyuambora village consider brickmaking as a way of making extra money.
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Sorghum, sunflower, other spring wheat, canola, barley, and oats all record a drop in national planted acres between 2015 and 2016.
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And when she travels to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city, to sell her crop, she can't find buyers for the sorghum.
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He typically exports about half of the grain sorghum, mostly to China, as well as a large share of the cotton.
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Pork, cotton, sorghum, dairy (milk), wheat and corn make up the bulk of the remaining $1.1 billion in direct-payment aid.
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"On the retaliatory side, obviously sorghum, soybean, those guys are generally concerned about the impact that that would have," said Rep.
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The spoons are made of rice, wheat or sorghum, and come in a variety of flavors like ginger-garlic and cumin.
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The Chicago-based company is a major soybean processor as well as one of the largest shippers of sorghum to China.
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The global commodities market and trade flow of goods from sorghum and corn to pork have been roiled by the dispute.
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On Tuesday, China imposed an effective 178.6 percent duty on imports of U.S. sorghum, another grain that is used in feed.
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He has refused the entreaties of government agriculture officers to grow smaller, naturally drought-resistant grains such as sorghum and millet.
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In 1986, Nigeria briefly banned the import of malted barley, and its breweries were forced to rely on sorghum and maize.
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Joining them were other smaller players representing producers of goods like turkey, pork and potatoes or sunflowers, sorghum, peanuts and eggs.
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Many villagers said their dogs got mostly leftover boule, the local staple made of pounded millet or sorghum with fish sauce.
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Some Chinese sorghum importers have asked Beijing to waive the 178.6-percent anti-dumping deposit on U.S. imports already at sea.
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Through the first seven months of 2019, sorghum shipments to China are down 84% from the same period a year earlier.
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China previously slapped tariffs on U.S. soybeans, corn, wheat, sorghum and fresh fruit as well as nuts and certain dairy products.
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As a child, they could depend on the rains to plant their maize and sorghum, a grain used to feed livestock.
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In 2017, they bought about $839 million of U.S. sorghum, most of which was shipped in the months after the autumn harvest.
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An elevator operated by global grains merchant Archer Daniels Midland at Corpus Christi was bidding roughly $3.68 per bushel to buy sorghum.
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ADM said in May it would take a $30 million hit to its second-quarter trading profit related to disrupted sorghum shipments.
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Bear, who farms near Brewster, Kansas, said she switched 640 acres to corn from sorghum, a livestock feed also known as milo.
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Beijing imposed tariffs last year on imports of U.S. agricultural goods, including soybeans, grain sorghum and pork, as retribution for U.S. levies.
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Beijing then said it would slap a hefty temporary tariff on U.S. sorghum imports after finding they had damaged the domestic industry.
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U.N. agencies are recommending farmers grow different food crops to cope with low rainfall, such as replacing water-intensive crops with sorghum.
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"We instantly purchased about 9 to 1003 million bushels of sorghum that was previously unavailable, that was canceled (to China)," Dale said.
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When the sorghum ripens, the local farmers sell it to the FAO, which grinds it and uses it to feed the refugees.
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Last season, Tshuma and his wife Simnai harvested 1.5 tonnes of millet, one tonne of sorghum, and a quarter tonne of groundnuts.
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The government found the domestic industry was "substantially damaged" by U.S. sorghum imports that are being dumped into the country, it said.
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Tensions have been high since China launched an anti-dumping probe of U.S. sorghum in February, though it dropped it in May.
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Mr. Vera, 193, said that his annual rent from Iberdrola was four times as much as what he makes from growing sorghum.
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On Tuesday, agricultural commodity trader Archer Daniels Midland announced it would take a $30 million hit in connection with sorghum-related impacts.
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Also on Thursday, U.S. Department of Agriculture data showed China bought 65,000 tonnes of U.S. sorghum for the first time since August.
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Baijiu, which is the world's best-selling alcohol by volume, is made from sorghum and produced in traditional pot stills around China.
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Last year, Beijing imposed tariffs on imports of U.S. agricultural goods, including soybeans, grain sorghum and pork as retribution for U.S. levies.
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The steel-slat wall traces a path parallel to Robertson Street, in a flat rural landscape of corn and grain sorghum fields.
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Vietnam has never imported U.S. sorghum and the Philippines imported just 19,000 tonnes in the 2016/17 season, according to USDA data.
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China bought roughly 60% of U.S. soybean exports before the trade war and was a major buyer of sorghum, dairy and pork.
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China bought roughly 60% of U.S. soybean exports before the trade war and was a major buyer of sorghum, dairy and pork.
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Typical grocery store blends feature white or brown rice flour and sorghum flour, as well as starches such as potato or tapioca.
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The aid package, announced in July, was expected to include cash for farmers of soybeans, sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, dairy and hogs.
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China ended its investigation into imports of U.S. sorghum after imposing hefty anti-dumping deposits on shipments of the grain last month.
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Beijing imposed tariffs last year on imports of U.S. agricultural goods, including soybeans, grain sorghum and pork as retribution for U.S. levies.
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Demand has taken a further hit because Mexico, another big market for U.S. sorghum, has been canceling sales, USDA data showed on Thursday.
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China will impose anti-dumping deposits on imports of U.S. sorghum equal to 178.6 percent of their value, the government said on Tuesday.
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Maize was introduced in 1608 and since then it has largely replaced more traditional and drought-resistant crops such as cassava or sorghum.
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"That could mean more than 5 million tonnes of sorghum would be replaced by corn, which pushed up corn prices," the analyst said.
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Oklahoma is currently behind its 2014-2018 average in planting cotton, sorghum and peanuts, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture report.
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Besides, rice is less fiddly to cook than millet or sorghum, adds Mr Roy-Macauley—a convenience food for Africa's tired city workers.
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Since 2000, only 11 new varieties of sorghum have been developed in Zimbabwe, compared to more than 140 varieties of maize, Mujaju said.
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ADM, which revealed the expected impact during an earnings-day conference call on Tuesday, is one of the largest sorghum exporters to China.
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Two cargoes of sorghum loaded in Texas initially destined for China have been diverted to Spain, according to Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.
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"Sorghum is kind of an easy sale because it doesn't have a GMO presence and it can go just about everywhere," Miller said.
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China made its biggest purchase of U.S. sorghum since April earlier this month, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data issued on Thursday.
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Choices for spring crops in the Southern Plains could include soybeans, corn, sorghum, canola or cotton, but projected returns are not much better.
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Beijing imposed tariffs last year on imports of soybeans, grain sorghum, pork and other items, slashing shipments of American farm products to China.
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"Today's decision in China reflects a broader trade fight in which U.S. sorghum farmers are the victim, not the cause," the group said.
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The customs figures do not give a country by country breakdown, but China imports almost all of its sorghum from the United States.
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The country is the world's top importer of soybeans and a major buyer of other agricultural goods, such as the livestock feed sorghum.
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The package allocates a total of about $9.6 billion to producers of almonds, cotton, corn, dairy, pork, soybeans, sorghum, sweet cherries and wheat.
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The $6 billion that was dispersed in August included about $85033 billion to producers of corn, cotton, dairy, pork, sorghum, soybeans, and wheat.
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In 2017/18, Japan imported about 365,830 tonnes of grain sorghum, down from 1.46 million tonnes in 2012/13, according to government data.
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In the longer term, a lack of Chinese buyers could put pressure on sorghum prices, increasing its share of the Japanese feed market.
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U.S. farmers are taking the brunt of the hit from China, with nearly $85033 billion aimed at exports of soybeans, sorghum and meats.
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The $6 billion that was dispersed in August included about $4.7 billion to producers of corn, cotton, dairy, hogs, sorghum, soybean, and wheat.
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Beijing spent about $1.3 billion on sorghum in 2016, and $1.2 billion worth came from the U.S., according MIT's Observatory of Economic Complexity.
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It tasted smoother—and more appropriate for Ghana's tropical climate—than a Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, which is also sometimes brewed using sorghum.
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China bought roughly 60% of U.S. soybean exports before the trade war and also was a major buyer of sorghum, dairy and pork.
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Dr. Messing spearheaded several big sequencing initiatives, projects that contributed to the understanding of the genetics of corn, rice, sorghum and other crops.
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The 'RB Eden' loaded U.S. sorghum from trader ADM's Corpus Christi Grain Elevator on March 18, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
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Every year, the Graff 7A Ranch in Hondo, Texas, hosts the South Texas Maize, a giant labyrinth of sorghum and seasonally appropriate puns.
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The USDA said 4.366 million cwt of sorghum was used in ethanol production, down from the 5.980 million cwt used the previous month.
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Her family had been malnourished, so Ms. Nyirabazungu first bought corn, soybeans, sorghum and a small amount of beef with her newfound funds.
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BEIJING, July 2566 (Reuters) - China's sorghum imports jumped 38.1 percent in June from a year earlier, boosted by a temporary easing of Sino-U.
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Bids for deliveries in July M-FOBCRP-P3, when newly harvested Texas sorghum will be available, spiked to highs not seen since late January.
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The specimens consisted of seed samples for some of the world's most vital food sources like potato, sorghum, rice, barley, chickpea, lentil and wheat.
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Bunge's rival, Archer Daniels Midland, said on Tuesday it would take a $30-million hit in the second quarter due to the sorghum dispute.
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China, the world's largest agriculture market brought in 4.8 million tonnes of U.S. sorghum in 2017, compared with 32.9 million tonnes of U.S. soybeans.
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But sorghum prices are rising, making it less viable for Chinese buyers to import the grain when they already face such a high tariff.
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Chinese tariffs on products including soybeans, sorghum and ethanol have cut off demand in one of the top market for many U.S. agricultural crops.
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Desert areas are likely to spread south and hotter days and nights could slash the productivity of local sorghum and millet varieties, it said.
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Kansas-based hog producer Seaboard Corp is also boosting its sorghum use for its animals in Oklahoma, where the crop is grown, traders said.
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China is the top buyer of U.S. sorghum as well as soybeans, the United States' most valuable export to the world's No. 2 economy.
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The 'Ocean Belt' carrying 58,000 tonnes of sorghum from the United States switched its destination from China to Kashima, Japan, according to the data.
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Farmers can switch to other feed mixes, but the cost of possible replacements like sorghum, distiller's grain and rapeseed meal have also risen lately.
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At one outpost in Maiduguri, farmers say that when their sorghum grew "too much like a bush" they were ordered to chop it down.
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However, growing trade disputes are disrupting agricultural supply chains worldwide, with ships carrying U.S. sorghum exports turning around after China raised prices for buyers.
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On Friday, China announced a 25 percent tariff on $34 billion worth of American products, including soybeans, corn, wheat, beef, dairy products and sorghum.
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Did you know that some of the earliest evidence of beer-making, using warm-climate cereals like millet and sorghum, was found in Africa?
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Zhang, 68 one of China's most prominent filmmakers, was the first Chinese director to win Berlin's Golden Bear award in 1988, for "Red Sorghum".
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The ship loaded U.S. sorghum from trader ADM's Corpus Christi grain elevator in Texas on March 18, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
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As the effects of climate change grow more severe worldwide, sorghum will likely become a crucial grain for not just beer, but food, too.
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Then one of the shooters got back in the driver's seat, and the truck jounced along the edge of sorghum fields populated with kangaroos.
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Then, last month the ministry announced an anti-dumping probe into U.S. imports of sorghum, a cereal grain used mostly for feed and ethanol.
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Government authorities have also been slow in issuing import permits for barley and sorghum, which could slow down imports of those grains as well.
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Before Sunday's deal, U.S. corn, sorghum, wheat, undenatured ethanol, and refined copper cathodes had faced an additional tariff of 10% an imports into China.
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This has farmers rightly concerned they may — repeat, may — get less for their soybeans, sorghum or pork if China goes through with its threats.
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Bids for cargoes of Australian sorghum rose $1.13 from prices quoted on Tuesday to $322 a ton, said two traders that participate in the market.
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ADM has said it will take a $30 million hit to its trading profit in the second quarter due to the trade dispute over sorghum.
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Drought in East Africa has sent prices of staples such as maize and sorghum soaring, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said last month.
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The $12 billion aid package that was approved earlier this year helps wheat, soybean, cotton, dairy, hog, sorghum, almond, and corn producers, according to CNBC.
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"We then widened the range of products and brought in pigeon pea, green gram, sorghum and then last year we went into vegetables," he said.
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Touré at the IER said small-scale farmers have given the new sorghum varieties names in the local language that "speak volumes" about their success.
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Beijing imposed tariffs last year on imports of U.S. agricultural goods, including soybeans, grain sorghum and pork, slashing shipments of American farm products to China.
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Beijing last year imposed tariffs on imports of U.S. agricultural goods, including soybeans, grain sorghum and pork, slashing shipments of American farm products to China.
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Sorghum is used to feed animals and represents a fraction of the billions of dollars of goods that move between the world's two largest economies.
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USDA had estimated total U.S. sorghum exports at about 245 million bushels in the current shipping season, accounting for about 67 percent of the crop.
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Traders were selling the sorghum at prices well below the initial sale prices, potentially resulting in losses for some global trade houses, grain traders said.
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They included sorghum, a canelike grass with red-tinted tassels spilling from the tops, mung beans and green-topped daikon radishes low to the ground.
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Preliminary evidence and information found that imported sorghum from the U.S. had been exported at a lower than normal value, it said, damaging local producers.
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This season he expects to harvest four tonnes of millet and nearly 2.5 tonnes of sorghum, despite a drought that has slashed neighbors' maize harvests.
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China's deposit would devastate Kansas, the top U.S. sorghum-producing state which supported Trump in the presidential election, Governor Jeff Colyer said in a statement.
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Because these tolerate drought well, they can be planted north and east of the capital, Bamako, in fields where sorghum is now the dominant crop.
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A 178 per cent import duty on imports of US sorghum announced on Tuesday came in tandem with plans to continue liberalising its automotive sector.
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Farmers, who live in small mud huts without electricity, complain that their harvests of sorghum, ground nuts and beans have been meager after disappointing rains.
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Exports of feed grains in all forms, which includes corn, sorghum, and barley, increased an astounding 28500 percent since NAFTA went into effect in 6900.
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The Department of Agriculture said about $4.7 billion of those funds would used to help producers of corn, cotton, dairy, pork, sorghum, soybeans and wheat.
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"Just finished up a candid and productive discussion with Kansas corn and grain sorghum farmers on #RFS," Pruitt tweeted from his official account on Tuesday.
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China has opened an antidumping investigation into U.S. sorghum, seen by some as a response to White House actions on washing machines and solar panels.
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Even so, Reuters reported Wednesday that prices for cargoes of Australian sorghum were up after the anti-dumping duties were slapped on the U.S. grain.
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Meantime, Beijing escalated the ongoing trade fight with the U.S. on Tuesday by slapping an anti-dumping duty of 179 percent on U.S. sorghum imports.
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Feed wheat has been competing with the likes of barley, sorghum, corn, and corn's ethanol byproduct, distillers' dried grains with solubles (DDGS) in recent years.
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Apart from a few showers in mid-January, it hasn't rained in Mafomoti since September and her maize, millet and sorghum crops have been destroyed.
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But China is drawing up a reprisal list that includes soybeans, sorghum and live hogs, report the WSJ's Lingling Wei, Yoko Kubota and Liza Lin.
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Kantor said that, right now, sorghum produces 10-15 tons of dry biomass per hectare, but they're hoping they can increase that yield through breeding.
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Rice, buckwheat, sorghum, teff, millet and amaranth are some of the grains without gluten, and are therefore suitable for anyone on a gluten-free diet.
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More than three-quarters of the sorghum the United States exports goes to China, according to the U.S. Grains Council, a grain export industry group.
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"I would ask him to do what he can, so that once more I can grow cassava, corn, black-eyed peas and sorghum," she said.
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China's sorghum purchases sank by almost a quarter year-on-year after Beijing launched a probe into U.S. imports of the grain in early February.
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Demand also may return once the reserves are gone, said Florentino Lopez, executive director at the United Sorghum Checkoff Program, which promotes the U.S. commodity.
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So here was progress, at least, though the Hilltop sorghum brigade would hardly be enough to take into battle against seasoned thugs like the Saviors.
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China announced hefty anti-dumping tariffs on imports of U.S. sorghum and measures on synthetic rubber imports from the United States, European Union and Singapore.
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Some of that U.S. sorghum will be exported to other countries, but losses to U.S. growers will still amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Then, earlier this month the ministry announced an anti-dumping probe into U.S. imports of sorghum, a cereal grain used mostly for feed and ethanol.
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Several China-bound ships carrying U.S. sorghum exports have changed course since China's government announced a new tariff targeting the U.S. grain industry this week.
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China's imports of sorghum, another main ingredient for animal feed, dropped 24 percent in November from a year earlier to 2040,116.33 tonnes, customs data showed.
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There was additional support for sorghum stemming from lower production in Australia because of a drought last year, said an agricultural commodities analyst based in Australia.
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China's Commerce ministry said it would return the deposits on sorghum imports it collected, bringing relief to Chinese buyers who still had cargoes stuck at ports.
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As a result, the Grains Council may dial back plans made during China's investigation to find more buyers in other countries for U.S. sorghum, Sleight said.
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That earlier program utilized the CCC for so-called market facilitation payments to farmers, with the top five commodities being soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton and sorghum.
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Hassan Bekheet, 53, said he didn't need much convincing to swap his maize crops for drought-tolerant sorghum when he joined the project in Sahel Selim.
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Hassan Bekheet, 53, said he didn't need much convincing to swap his maize crops for drought-tolerant sorghum when he joined the project in Sahel Selim.
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Rich Westerners are eating less wheat and more of the cereals that people in poor countries traditionally grow, such as millet, sorghum, teff and yes, quinoa.
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Six of the nine crops - cassava, groundnut, pearl millet, finger millet, sorghum and yam - are projected to remain stable under moderate and extreme climate change scenarios.
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Sorghum imports for the month fell 713 percent year on year to 570,000 tonnes, the data showed, but were still up slightly from February's 555,713 tonnes.
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In Tharaka West, a Meru sub-county, members of Maweni Farmer Field School have grown sorghum for the past two seasons using low-till farming techniques.
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In the workshop of a small, independent baijiu distillery in Maotai, shirtless men rake out hot piles of sorghum that they have tipped from steaming wheelbarrows.
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The other groups were American Coalition for Ethanol, Growth Energy, National Corn Growers Association, National Sorghum Producers, the Renewable Fuels Association and the Biotechnology Innovation Organization.
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In the United States, ethanol companies in Kansas and Texas have moved quickly to take advantage of the cheaper sorghum prices, using it instead of corn.
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It also led to some of the 20 bulk cargoes of sorghum that were steaming toward China to change their destination after the tariff was announced.
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In 2017, about 100 million sorghum bushels were used to make ethanol, compared to 5.5 billion bushels of corn, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
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But Beijing's tariffs last summer nearly halted U.S. shipments to Chinese buyers, who use sorghum to feed livestock and make a fiery Chinese liquor called baijiu.
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China brought in 2000,216.2 tonnes of sorghum in July, down 288 percent from 3003,2300 tonnes a year ago, data from the General Administration of Customs showed.
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Thomson Reuters Eikon ship-tracking data showed a vessel carrying 69,842 tonnes of sorghum switch destinations to Dammam, Saudi Arabia from China earlier in the day.
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As though in retaliation, another nearby team has created a variety of sorghum that yields about 22000% more than the indigenous kind even without additional fertiliser.
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Despite the overture to the world's top sorghum buyer, deals have so far remained elusive because the trade dispute is making importers nervous, according to traders.
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China, which in 2017 bought about $13 million worth of U.S. sorghum, has not purchased significant volumes since February, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
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In February, Beijing launched an anti-dumping investigation into American sorghum, looking into whether the U.S. was selling the crop to China at unfairly low prices.
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Many health-conscious consumers around the globe are also curious about beers made from alternative grains, especially because many of them, like sorghum, are gluten-free.
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Two weeks after Mr. Trump placed new tariffs on washing machines and solar panels, Chinese officials began an anti-dumping inquiry into American exports of sorghum.
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Experts are also watching the spread of a pest called the fall armyworm, a sort of caterpillar that likes to eat rice, sorghum and corn crops.
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The ministry said it obtained "preliminary evidence and information" that showed that imported sorghum from the United States had received subsidies from the United States government.
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Twenty ships carrying over 1.2 million tonnes of U.S. sorghum are on the water, according to export inspections data from the USDA's Federal Grain Inspection Service.
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Mr. Thiam will work with sorghum and millet, and serve these with dried fruits and yogurt at breakfast time, or with vegetable-laden stews at dinner.
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Though prices for U.S. sorghum and wheat are good without the additional tariffs, soybeans, America's top agricultural export to China, face strong competition from Brazilian cargoes.
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Though prices for U.S. sorghum and wheat are good without the additional tariffs, soybeans, America's top agricultural export to China, face strong competition from Brazilian cargoes.
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Traders said importers in China would likely reduce purchases of farm products used to feed livestock, including sorghum and the ethanol byproduct distiller's dried grains (DDGs).
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While their produce commands a higher price than it did last year, prices for the staple grains they buy, like maize and sorghum, are climbing fast.
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China has allowed big-ticket American mergers that are subject to Beijing's antitrust reviews to go forward and dropped an investigation into imports of American sorghum.
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China also imported 560,000 tonnes of sorghum, down by 0.9 percent on the same month last year, and 390,000 tonnes of corn, a jump of 147 percent.
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Giessel plans to leave an extra 100 acres unplanted with corn or sorghum - about 8 percent more than he usually leaves fallow - because of poor profit margins.
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"We recognize that our sorghum business has great potential to expand and grow both domestically and internationally," Mike Frank, Monsanto's chief commercial officer, said in a statement.
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If the forecast flags a dry spell coming, the agents might suggest farmers plant drought-tolerant or early-maturing crops such as millet or sorghum, Ireri said.
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The lack of genetically modified material in sorghum makes it a good choice for livestock and poultry farmers seeking to label their products GMO free, he said.
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In January, Washington slapped steep duties on imported washing machines and solar panels, triggering a probe by Beijing into U.S. sorghum that was widely seen as retaliation.
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The sale of 65,000 metric tonnes of U.S. sorghum marked China's biggest purchase since Beijing imposed a 25 percent tariff on imports of American grains in July.
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Japan could buy some sorghum that had been destined for China, said Ken Morrison, a U.S. trader who worked for Cargill and now publishes a commodity newsletter.
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But creating a story about the maintenance of trade networks, or learning how to grow a functional sorghum crop, is not exactly the stuff of high drama.
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Beijing's tit-for-tat trade spat with Washington could come back to bite China when it comes to soybeans and even the grain sorghum to some extent.
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That news prompted an American ship carrying sorghum, bound for Shanghai, to make a U-turn in the Indian Ocean and head for Cartagena, Spain, reports Bloomberg.
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"We ate sorghum when we were younger ourselves, but we have been planting maize for so long now it's the only food our children know," Dube explained.
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She suggested that the majority of the spend would be on soybeans, followed by smaller purchases of nuts and fruits, pork, poultry, corn, sorghum and ethanol byproducts.
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China has already brought in 500,000 tonnes of sorghum in the first eight months of the year, almost all from the United States, according to customs data.
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He grows corn, cotton, rice and grain sorghum along the Gulf Coast and estimates damage from feral swine can sometimes wipe out one-fifth of his crop.
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U.S. sorghum is relatively cheap in China due to artificial price inflation, which experts say allows the country to target a U.S. export from typically red states.
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On July 6, that fear became reality when Beijing included sorghum in a list of U.S. exports to face levies in retaliation for U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods.
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The building, shuttered in 2001, was once the tallest in sub-Saharan Africa, its 100-foot bins capable of storing 30,000 tons of wheat, maize, soya, and sorghum.
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Most of Archer Daniels Midland Co's sorghum shipments to China have already been diverted and resold to other markets, said Jackie Anderson, a spokeswoman for the agricultural trader.
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Last night, I threw together a lunch of sorghum, spinach, roasted squash, cheese, liquid aminos, and sesame oil, so that I didn't have to buy it at work.
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The TerraSentia has already been tested in a wide variety of fields, including corn, soybean, sorghum, cotton, wheat, tomatoes, strawberries, citrus crops, apple orchards, almond farms and vineyards.
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A second trader said the rise in barley imports was also due to lower global sorghum output, which had driven buyers to seek more of the alternative grain.
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Along with the new factories, Longping plans to build research centers to improve its corn seeds and to start developing new soy and sorghum seeds, the executives said.
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Stakes are higher for farmers in the trade negotiations because China is the world's largest soy importer and a major buyer of other good such as grain sorghum.
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Stakes are higher for farmers in the trade negotiations because China is the world's largest soy importer and a major buyer of other goods such as grain sorghum.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's corn futures jumped in early trading on Monday after Beijing launched an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy probe into sorghum imports from the United States.
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It was the first confirmed financial impact among global grain trading companies from Beijing's move on April 17 to require hefty anti-dumping deposits on U.S. sorghum imports.
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Offerings at the three-year-old hot spot include juicy pulled pork cakes, creamy hand-cut slaw, tater tots and spicy collard greens drizzled with sweet Kentucky sorghum.
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"The whole livelihood along the Sahel depends on a few main crops, namely millet and sorghum," U.N. World Food Program analyst Matthieu Tockert told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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How else could he grow a bumper crop of ripening maize, sorghum, millet and peanuts in a season when many farmers in Zimbabwe have written off their crops?
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The most urgent need is to reach 2.8 million people with rice or sorghum, or cash to buy supplies, by July, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said.
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Producers will now be able to make biodiesel, heating oil, jet fuel and liquefied petroleum gas from sorghum and get credits as biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuels.
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Sorghum, which can survive weeks without water, has been discussed as an alternative to maize, but it is unclear whether the local population would consume it, Takoukam added.
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But the shipment this month of 1,100 tonnes of sorghum for South Sudan through its main Massawa port was the first cargo to land in Eritrea since 2006.
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China also announced Friday that it was ending an investigation into alleged U.S. sorghum dumping, which had halted a $1.1 billion global market for the grain last year.
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Back in 2016, Indian cutlery company Bakeys unveiled a line of "sweet", "savory", and "plain" spoons, all of which were edible and made of rice, wheat, and sorghum.
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But on May 17, President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser, Liu He, announced that Beijing would drop its probe of U.S. sorghum — a sign of easing trade tensions.
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"Our goal is to get it consistently up above 20 tons per hectare, and if we can do that, then sorghum becomes an economically feasible biofuel," Kantor said.
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Two weeks after the administration imposed a tariff on solar panels, China opened an anti-dumping investigation into American exports of sorghum, a grain used in livestock feed.
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The U.S. sorghum industry called for an end to the trade dispute and expressed concern about the impact on established trade relationships that have taken years to build.
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A spokesman at the Chinese foreign ministry said Chinese firms have already purchased 700,000 tonnes of pork and 700,000 tonnes of sorghum from the United States this year.
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U.S. sorghum exports to China totalled 628,075 tonnes from January to August while pork exports stood at 294,453 tonnes over that time, U.S. Census Bureau trade data showed.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's November barley imports dropped further, while sorghum intake remained a trickle, customs data showed on Sunday, amid Beijing's rocky trade relations with major grains exporters.
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Five years ago, Beijing temporarily stopped accepting shipments of genetically modified American corn, another important animal feed, prompting Chinese farmers to buy other crops like sorghum and barley.
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Moreover, what works with rice might reasonably be expected to work, too, with other cereals, such as wheat and sorghum, which also have close relatives that behave as weeds.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australian sorghum prices rose on Wednesday on expectations of strong demand after China imposed hefty anti-dumping deposits on cargoes from the United States, trade sources said.
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As part of the probe, Beijing had slapped a hefty deposit on U.S. sorghum imports in April, raising the costs for its buyers and sending benchmark prices spiraling lower.
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The sorghum transaction is Monsanto's first spin-off of an entire crop space since the sale of its sunflower seeds unit to Syngenta in 2009, a Monsanto spokesman said.
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In Yunnan alone, where the pest struck first in China, some 1.29 million mu (86,000 hectares) had been affected by mid-June, including corn, sugarcane, sorghum and ginger crops.
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Overall, more than 19,000 hectares of maize, millet and sorghum crops were devastated, causing about $1.8 million in damages, it said, with small and medium size farmers affected most.
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Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp bought one vessel carrying about 2012,000 tonnes of U.S. sorghum, said a source who declined to be named due to sensitivity of the matter.
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While many sorghum traders in China were surprised by the news, they said they would likely switch to buying from the nation's ample supplies of locally grown corn instead.
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China&aposs U.S. sorghum imports surged from 317,000 metric tons in 2013 to 4.76 million tons last year while prices fell by about a third in the same period.
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In Yunnan alone, where the pest struck first in China, some 2200 million mu (270,000 hectares) had been affected by mid-June, including corn, sugarcane, sorghum and ginger crops.
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Sorghum might not be an ingredient you're familiar with, but if you can find it (or sub in some molasses), the chili honey glaze puts this over the edge.
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Prices of soymeal and rapeseed meal used in animal feed jumped on the sorghum deposit news as traders worried China had penalties in store for other U.S. agricultural products.
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For example, generally 2900 percent of the U.S. corn crop, 220006 to 2202 percent of the sorghum crop, 2628 percent of pork and 28500 percent of almonds are exported.
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"Over the past 25 years, the government allowed corn, wheat, sorghum, soy, milk and other products to be imported below production costs," said Victor Suarez, a deputy agricultural minister.
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BEIJING, Nov 23 (Reuters) - China's imports of sorghum slid in October to a trickle, customs data showed on Friday, amid ongoing trade tensions with top exporter the United States.
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The U.S. and Chinese economies each lose about $220 billion annually due to Beijing's tariffs on soybeans, corn, wheat and sorghum alone, said Purdue University agricultural economist Wally Tyner.
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After the sorghum tariff was imposed, several cargoes of the commodity bound for Chinese ports became stranded because grain handlers would have been forced to pay the hefty tariffs.
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"We hope the dismissal of these cases reflects a lessening of trade tensions as our leaders continue to dialogue," National Sorghum Producers Chairman Don Bloss said in a statement.
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Farmers of soybeans, the U.S. largest crop export to China, are eligible for relief, as are growers of corn, wheat, cotton, rice and sorghum as well as livestock producers.
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The U.S. and Chinese economies each lose about $2100 billion annually due to Beijing's tariffs on soybeans, corn, wheat and sorghum alone, said Purdue University agricultural economist Wally Tyner.
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Each has a story, like one that Mr. Caranda-Martin described as "drunk by fishermen," composed of wache (red sorghum leaves) and root grass from the West African coast.
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Dr. Hickey and his team are working on adding Crispr machinery directly into barley and sorghum saplings, in order to modify the plants' genes while simultaneously speed breeding them.
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In the opposite direction, heavy rains can lead to a toxic buildup of hydrogen cyanide or prussic acid in foods like flax, maize, sorghum, arrow grass, cherries and apples.
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Over the past 10 years, Zhang Mianhuan, 59, has increased the size of his farm 10 times, to more than 30 acres, on which he grows corn and sorghum.
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China slashed imports of U.S. farm goods during the countries' trade war, hurting crop prices, after Beijing imposed steep retaliatory tariffs on American soybeans, grain sorghum and other products.
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The tit-for-tat trade threats have already disrupted trade flows across the commodities industry from sorghum to coal and inflated prices of animal feed ingredients such as soymeal.
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Several vessels are still at anchor off the Chinese coast however, shipping data shows, while others are still en route to China, previously the world's top buyer of sorghum.
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The pizza chain on Monday said the new pizza crust contains sorghum, teff, amaranth and quinoa and is made in a separate facility before being shipped to stores nationwide.
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Florentino Lopez, executive director of the United Sorghum Checkoff, an industry group, said Chinese buyers who attended the dinner were concerned about the longer-term impact of the trade war.
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They wanted to know if U.S. farmers may cut back on sorghum plantings, which could tighten supplies available for sale next year even if Washington and Beijing resolve their differences.
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Beijing retaliated by hitting $110 billion of U.S. products, including the agriculture sector, prompting the USDA to offer compensation to farmers of soybeans, sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, dairy and hogs.
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In the 1950s Max Heinrich, a German, recorded the process of making sorghum beer in present-day Zambia; his chibuku ("by the book") is now churned out by corporate brewers.
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And the blow comes as farmers fear a more direct hit from retaliatory tariffs threatened by China on crops such as sorghum and soybeans, the most valuable U.S. agricultural export.
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China has typically been the top buyer of U.S. sorghum and, despite a 25% U.S. trade tariff on the grain, it has still bought a few cargoes in recent months.
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"That's an integral part of their ration," said Roemer, who is now president of Nu Life Market, a Kansas-based company that sells sorghum for use in food and drinks.
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In addition to oats, other inherently gluten-free grains — such as millet, sorghum and corn — also have the potential to come into contact with gluten-containing grains, Dr. Green said.
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The pain for chicken producers and the increased appetite for pork are ripple effects of Trump's trade disputes, which have also reduced shipments of U.S. soybeans and sorghum to China.
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China imported $9.1 billion of U.S. farm produce in 2018 - mainly soybeans Sc1, dairy, sorghum and pork LHc1 - down from $19.5 billion in 2017, according to the American Farm Bureau.
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It had loaded U.S. sorghum from trader Cargill's Houston grain elevator in Texas and departed on March 31 for Guangzhou in southern China, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
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Preliminary numbers showing total imports and exports earlier in the month revealed upheaval in flows of grains, such as sorghum, which were temporarily hit with anti-dumping sanctions by China.
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The USDA will provide direct payments to producers of soybeans, sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, dairy and hogs to help them cover their losses and find new markets for their goods.
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Specifically, the scientists say farmers could cut their irrigation of industrial crops used primarily for animal feed and biofuels, such as hay, field corn, soybeans, sorghum, millet, rapeseed and switchgrass.
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The United States accounts for more than 90 percent of total sorghum shipments to China, which uses it to feed livestock and ducks and make a fiery liquor called baijiu.
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China has also halted its anti-dumping case against U.S. sorghum exports, from states that helped to elect President Trump, and for which China is by far their biggest customer.
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Japan's increased sorghum purchases may mean reduced imports of other commonly used feed grains like corn, barley and wheat or less use of locally-grown feed rice, a source said.
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The US Department of Agriculture said Monday that it would dole out around $6 billion, including about $85033 billion to producers of corn, cotton, dairy, hog, sorghum, soybean, and wheat.
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Affected products include beef, pork, poultry, fish and seafood, dairy products, vegetables, mushrooms, fruits, nuts, sorghum, other grains, soybeans, whiskey, orange juice, tobacco, and conventional, hybrid and electric passenger vehicles.
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The package includes direct payments to the producers of soybeans, sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, dairy and hogs, who would be compensated according to the size of their harvests this year.
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On the farm, Mr. Knopf was deciding how many acres of soybeans, sorghum and corn to plant in the spring to take advantage of an early-order discount for seed.
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The Chinese government is already threatening to retaliate by imposing restrictions on American soybeans, sorghum and other farm commodities in a targeted assault on states that voted for Mr. Trump.
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Of the armada, valued at more than $216 million, at least five changed course within hours of China's announcing tariffs on U.S. sorghum imports on Tuesday, Reuters shipping data showed.
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The RB Eden, a vessel carrying 70,223 tonnes of sorghum loaded at the same ADM terminal, was headed east-northeast through the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa.
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The current round of Chinese tariffs already hit agriculture by slapping import taxes on nuts, wine and fruits, but China left bigger U.S. exports, such as soybeans and sorghum, untouched.
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China has been the United States' primary buyer of sorghum by a long shot, but the feed grain has been nearly shut out in the wake of the trade dispute.
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The Cetus Ocean loaded U.S. sorghum from trader ADM's Corpus Christi grain elevator in Texas on March 10 and had been heading for Singapore, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
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BEIJING, Aug 23 (Reuters) - China will impose an extra 5% tariff on U.S. soybeans from Sept 1, as well as additional 10% duties on U.S. wheat, corn and sorghum from Dec.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Friday it will impose an extra 5% tariff on U.S. soybeans from Sept 1, and additional 10% duties on U.S. wheat, corn and sorghum from Dec.
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He has the autodidact's love of learning; throughout the book he scatters extended explanations of agricultural processes—how rice is cultivated, how sorghum is processed, how it feels to pick cotton.
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GRAINS China has typically been the top buyer of U.S. sorghum and, despite a 25% U.S. trade tariff on the grain, it has still bought a few cargoes in recent months.
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The government should include seeds to grow cowpeas, millet, sorghum and bambara nuts in packages it distributes to farmers because they require less water than the traditional staple, maize, he added.
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And brewers can discuss the finer points of Brettanomyces (a kind of wild yeast), the implications of brewing with sorghum and the finest fashion to keep their foeder in fine fettle.
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Shankar Tiwari, a farmer in Maharashtra, has for the first time in nearly a decade planted sorghum on his two acres of land instead of sugar cane due to the drought.
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Archer Daniels Midland Co The commodities trader's adjusted operating profit slumped 30% in the fourth quarter to $183 million as the China trade war hit its sorghum and soybean origination business.
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State-run media on Sunday reported that Chinese companies were asking US exporters about buying soybeans, cotton, pork and sorghum, and had applied for the lifting of tariffs on those products.
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More than 20 bulk U.S. sorghum shipments were en route to China when the announcement was made, including more than a dozen that were loaded at ADM export terminals in Texas.
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China also told the U.S. side that it would actively consider information provided by U.S. firms on Beijing's anti-dumping investigation on sorghum imported from the United States, the sources said.
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Fall armyworm, which feasts in large numbers on the leaves and stems of many plant species, including sorghum, corn and sugarcane, can infest and damage hundreds of hectares of corn overnight.
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"One of the obvious things is (to say) don't plant maize this time, plant sorghum, millet," said Wiggins, while NGOs and governments can arrange imports and support for the most needy.
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But farmers have balked at switching, he said, because they fear they will have to eat the sorghum and other small grains they grow, and they prefer not to do that.
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The world's second largest economy is also the top buyer of U.S. sorghum, which it uses to feed livestock, but an anti-dumping investigation is expected to curtail purchases this year.
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Inland, which now caters mostly to private orders, represents what could become a new industry in West Africa: craft beer that can provide needed income to local farmers who grow sorghum.
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Mr. Bown said that some farmers would suffer but that the broader United States economy would not be substantially harmed if tariffs were to be imposed only on the sorghum industry.
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The country's production of cereals such as maize, sorghum and millet likely dropped to below average last year, the FAO's 2018 report said, in part due to climate and security issues.
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At the same time, it dropped what was widely believed to be a politically motivated inquiry into sorghum imports from the United States, the latest sign of a potentially softening stance.
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Chinese firms have already purchased 21.18,23 tonnes of pork and 700,000 tonnes of sorghum from the United States this year to meet market demand, said a foreign ministry spokesman on Tuesday.
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"They've already done this on washing machines and solar panels and the sorghum producer, one of the rare crops where we were making a profit, got targeted by China," he said.
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JCI expects another $2.1 billion will come from 1 million metric tons of frozen pork and offal imports, while sorghum, corn and distillers' grains imports will reach about $1.8 billion each.
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The Columbia researchers suggested that in some parts of India, planting alternative cereals, including sorghum, maize and millet, could provide more nutrition than rice for the amount of water they consume.
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Chinese buyers, who normally buy 90 percent of their sorghum imports from the United States, stopped purchasing due to concerns a tariff would be imposed and drive up the cost of shipments.
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Recent rains encouraged her to plant corn, which allows her to avoid a certain type of pest that infests sorghum fields and gives her a better chance at a profit, she said.
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Meng Jinhui, an analyst with Shengda Futures, said the move could see traders in China, the world's largest grain consumer, restricting imports of sorghum from the United States in the next year.
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Several ships carrying U.S. sorghum originally bound for China have changed course since Beijing imposed hefty anti-dumping deposits on U.S. imports as trade tensions grow between the world's top two economies.
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New hybrid seed lines developed specifically for Africa, such as NERICA and WITA, have boosted yields and enabled farmers to grow rice in dry areas where sorghum was once the dominant crop.
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It issued waivers for 10 million tons of soybean purchases this week and is reportedly mulling approving an additional 4 million to 5 million tons of grains, including wheat, corn and sorghum.
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Samples of wheat, lentil, barley, cultivated rice, mung beans, chickpeas, sorghum, grass peas, mash beans, and over 22015 different potato species are just a handful of the varieties that comprised today's deposit.
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U.S. orange juice, certain sorghum products, cotton, some types of wheat, as well as trucks, some SUVs, certain electric vehicles, will also be subject to the new duties, the finance ministry said.
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Demand for barley, used in both animal feed and brewing, has risen since China said in early February it would investigate alleged dumping of another feed grain, sorghum, by the United States.
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As expected, China also took steps to impose steep duties on imports of sorghum from the United States, an action that could hurt farmers in states where Mr. Trump enjoys political support.
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Peggy Lemaux, a cooperative extension specialist in biotechnology at the University of California Berkeley, is the lead researcher on another project aimed at engineering drought resistance into crops — in this case, sorghum.
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Then we drove on a ring road on the outskirts of Jos, pulling off eventually on a dirt road surrounded by irrigated tomato farms and dried-up stalks of corn and sorghum.
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In April, the ship detoured to South Korea from southern China after the country imposed hefty margin deposits on imports of U.S. sorghum, a grain used to make liquor and animal feed.
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The tariffs have slashed exports of U.S. crops including soybeans and sorghum and prompted the Trump administration to compensate American farmers for losses over two years with as much as $28 billion.
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Sorghum farmers in coastal Texas are among the first growers to harvest crops since the world's two largest economies started announcing tariffs on each other's goods, leaving them scrambling to find buyers.
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Drought-hardy grains such as sorghum are "unprofitable" and hard work, complains the 56-year-old, who farms two hectares (five acres) of land in Ezimnyama, a village near the Botswana border.
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In Somalia, maize and sorghum harvests were estimated to be 75 percent lower than usual and more than half of the country's population, mostly in rural areas, was facing hunger, it said.
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U.S. farmers welcomed the latest sorghum sale as the crop was one of the first casualties of the trade war, which has also slowed exports of U.S. soybeans and pork to China.
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Later on Thursday, the Ocean Pride, carrying 58,593 tonnes of sorghum that had loaded at ADM's Galveston, Texas, grain elevator in early March, entered Kashima port in Japan, Reuters shipping data showed.
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A look at the trials and tribulations of one U.S. agricultural product, sorghum, tells the story of how the U.S. reached the brink of a trade war with China — then swiftly retreated.
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Traditionally, crop breeders combine different strains of a crop (there are 40,000 varieties of sorghum) to create many different "children" crops of new strains, which they have to grow to test out.
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Archer Daniels Midland Co The commodities trader's adjusted operating profit slumped 30 percent in the fourth quarter to $183 million as the China trade war hit its sorghum and soybean origination business.
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Chinese Vice Premier Liu He met officials this week in Washington for talks aimed at resolving the tensions, and Beijing announced on Friday it was dropping its probe into U.S. sorghum imports.
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China's tariff list is heavy on agricultural goods such as soybeans, sorghum and cotton, threatening U.S. farmers in states that backed Trump in the 2016 U.S. election, such as Texas and Iowa.
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BEIJING — China has opened an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into sorghum imports from the United States, the latest salvo in an escalating trade dispute between the world's two largest economies.
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Indeed, the news had an immediate impact on the global grains market: Bids for cargoes of Australian sorghum, which are not subject to the higher tariffs, spiked following the announcement, traders said.
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Or, in more common foods—including barley, millet, flax, maize, sorghum, cherries, and apples—there is the potential for an accumulation of toxins due to loss of water and erratic weather events.
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Beijing is firing back with a 25 percent tariff on imports of 545 American items — many of them agricultural products such as soybeans, cotton, rice, sorghum, beef, pork, dairy, nuts and produce.
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Hunger and poverty take a toll: There may not be enough food or money if a family loses its few goats or cows, or if the crops — sorghum, millet, cowpeas, rice — wither.
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In May, ADM said it would take a hit of about $30 million in the second quarter due to Beijing's decision to impose stiff anti-dumping tariffs on sorghum, a livestock feed.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A vessel carrying 58,503 tonnes of sorghum from the United States switched its destination from China to South Korea early on Thursday, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon ship tracking data.
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The Peak Pegasus loaded U.S. sorghum from trader ADM's Corpus Christi grain elevator in Texas and departed on April 3 for Nansha in southern China, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
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Betty Murungi, a sorghum and millet farmer in the Kajuki area, said people cut fruit trees on their land "because they don't realize how crucial they are to our nutrition and health".
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The end of the investigation came as a huge relief to U.S. sorghum growers, who saw sales to the top grain buyer come to a halt and prices plummet over the past month.
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China's Commerce Ministry said in a statement the investigation into sorghum, used in animal feed and liquor, had revealed that anti-dumping and anti-subsidies penalties would inflate living costs for Chinese consumers.
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The deposit scheme stopped trade and disrupted supply chains worldwide, with almost two dozen ships carrying U.S. sorghum stranded at sea as merchants and buyers scrambled to sell cargoes at big discounts elsewhere.
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The top five commodities that received aid were soybeans, corn, wheat, cotton and sorghum while the top five states receiving the payments were Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Indiana, the USDA spokesman said.
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"After China's action on U.S. sorghum, no one is willing to take the risk of importing beans," said one Singapore-based trader at an international company which owns soybean processing facilities in China.
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AGRICULTURE Archer Daniels Midland Co The commodities trader's adjusted operating profit slumped 30 percent in the fourth quarter to $183 million as the China trade war hit its sorghum and soybean origination business.
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It issued waivers for 10 million tons of soybean purchases this week and is mulling approving an additional 4 million-5 million tons of grains, including wheat, corn and sorghum, according to Bloomberg.
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After the Trump administration imposed tariffs on steel and aluminium imports in March, in mid-April China announced a 179% preliminary anti-dumping duty on imports of American sorghum, a niche animal feed.
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In addition to the drop in lager sales, carbonated drinks revenue slid 79% in the quarter to June 30, Delta said but traditional sorghum beer sales were, however, 2% up in the quarter.
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On Sunday, Beijing launched an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into imports of sorghum from the United States, fuelling concerns in the industry that soybeans might be caught up in trade action.
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"I don't believe I've ever seen a year that farmers are as indecisive on acres as they are right now," said Wayne Cleveland, executive director of the Texas Sorghum Producers, a trade group.
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Though South American soybeans currently are priced cheaper than U.S. beans for April, traders said, other farm products - including meats, ethanol, corn, sorghum and DDGs - are expected to be appealing to Chinese buyers.
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Although South American soybeans currently are priced cheaper than U.S. beans for April, traders said, other farm products - including meats, ethanol, corn, sorghum and DDGs - are expected to be appealing to Chinese buyers.
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" White House Deputy Press Secretary Lindsay Walters added that Trump "has made it clear that any further illegal trade actions by China are not acceptable, including the unfair targeting of U.S. sorghum producers.
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The BTG EIGER departed with U.S. sorghum from Archer Daniels Midland Co's Corpus Christi grain elevator in Texas on March 3, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Federal Grains Inspection Service.
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The USDA confirmed that a China-bound shipment containing 53,788 tonnes of U.S. sorghum previously sold to an undisclosed buyer was loaded on the vessel Nord Summit at the Texas Gulf last week.
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Chinese companies have made inquiries about buying U.S. soybeans, cotton, pork, sorghum and will continue to purchase U.S. agricultural goods if prices and quality remain reasonable, Chinese official broadcaster CCTV said on Sunday.
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The Trump administration said late last month that it will disperse around $6 billion in aid to farmers, including about $4.7 billion to producers of corn, cotton, dairy, hog, sorghum, soybean and wheat.
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The market facilitation program will make direct payments to producers of cotton, corn, fluid milk, pork, soybeans, sorghum and wheat, and Canada wanted to know if more products might be covered in future.
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The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization also said seeds and tools had been looted from its warehouse, just weeks before harvesting of the main maize and sorghum crop and a second planting season.
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Developments in the second round of U.S.-China trade talks in Washington were in focus following news that China had announced it was rolling back an anti-dumping probe into U.S. sorghum imports.
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When the Chinese government hit imports of U.S. sorghum with a big antidumping deposit on April 18, the ship was headed east-northeast through the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa.
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China's plans to impose tariffs on hundreds of U.S. goods targets some top U.S. exports, including soybeans, sorghum and cotton, threatening U.S farmers in states that backed Trump, such as Texas and Iowa.
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On Thursday, the FAO warned that the pest is "increasingly growing an appetite for sorghum and millet, in addition to maize", and could spread to northern Africa, southern Europe and the Middle East.
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Last April, Reuters reported that several ships carrying cargoes of sorghum, a niche animal feed, from the United States to China changed course after Beijing slapped hefty anti-dumping deposits on U.S. imports.
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A few years ago, the Radabaughs were among only a few farmers in the state growing sorghum, a sugar canelike stalk that entire communities used to gather to press into syrup every year.
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The Chinese investigation is seen as largely a warning to the Trump administration but it could lead to tariffs and could hurt sorghum-producing states, particularly Kansas, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
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He alternates wheat and other crops with what he describes as a cocktail of grasses and leafy plants, like grain sorghum, sunflowers and alfalfa, a gesture toward the diversity of the wild prairie.
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The sunflowers have grown tall after about four months, but sorghum and vegetables have not grown as expected, which workers suspect is a result of the soil not being apt for such crops.
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Growing trade disputes are disrupting the agricultural supply chain worldwide, from corn buyers in Mexico shifting purchases to Brazil, to ships carrying U.S. sorghum exports turning around after China slapped on hefty tariffs.
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Darci Vetter, a former chief agricultural negotiator for the United States trade representative, called China's sorghum case just the latest example of American agriculture landing in the cross hairs as trade tensions rise.
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Mwanamvekha said it was too early to predict 2018/19 agricultural output but there could be significant reductions in the yields of most of Malawi's major food crops, which include cassava, groundnuts and sorghum.
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In 2013, he launched a nutritional supplement powder, Jal Gua, a blend of powder from the moringa tree and sorghum, a grain that is a commonly eaten in many African countries, Sudan among them.
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Most of the lost corn acres are expected to go to sorghum instead of prevented plant, which arises when farmers cannot plant an insured crop within the time frame specified in the insurance policy.
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By comparison, total U.S. soybean exports dropped 13.7% by volume and 5003% by value during the same period, while total sorghum exports dropped 72.8% by volume and 73.6% by value, according to the USDA.
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For the same price, you could also go to Home Depot and get a humble, conventional version made from broom corn, the straw-like plant also known as sorghum that yellows as it ages.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese imports of grains such as sorghum plunged in September from the year before, customs data showed on Tuesday, hit by escalating trade tensions with the United States and high prices elsewhere.
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They have also, by searching old literature, found that gel-dripping aerial roots were reported on a strain of sorghum at a conference in India in 1984, though the matter was never followed up.
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China bought 130,000 tonnes of soybeans, 120,000 tonnes of sorghum, 143,000 tonnes of wheat, 40,000 tonnes of pork and products, and 25,000 tonnes of cotton from the United States between July 19 and Aug.
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China bought 21,000 tonnes of soybeans, 120,000 tonnes of sorghum, 60,000 tonnes of wheat, 40,0003 tonnes of pork and products, and 25,000 tonnes of cotton from the United States between July 19 and Aug.
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China bought 220,0003 tonnes of soybeans, 2000,214 tonnes of sorghum, 23,000 tonnes of wheat, 40,000 tonnes of pork and products, and 25,000 tonnes of cotton from the United States between July 19 and Aug.
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The SAPAD project's peace ambassadors aim to break that vicious cycle by showing farmers the benefits of planting indigenous local seeds and drought-tolerant crops that need less water, such as sorghum and millet.
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China triggered the flurry of deals by imposing deposit fees of 178.6 percent of the value of U.S. sorghum imports earlier this month, after announcing an anti-dumping investigation on the grain in February.
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China bought 21,33 tonnes of soybeans, 23,212 tonnes of sorghum, 239,000 tonnes of wheat, 40,000 tonnes of pork and products, and 25,000 tonnes of cotton from the United States between July 19 and Aug.
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