China to reduce soy in animal diets

This spring, a cascade of developments began in China related to lowering the soybean meal levels in livestock feed. How does this impact pigs and global trade in feed ingredients? Last year, China imported record amounts of both soybeans and corn for livestock feed. This brought a long-term trend of strong dependence on trade relationships and foreign commodity availability to a new level. Tensions between the US and China, and Canada and China, have also highlighted China’s reliance on cr