Corn includes such grains as wheat, barley and oats.
谷物包括这几类,如小麦、大麦和燕麦等。
The farmer scattered
corn for the chicken.
农夫撒谷子喂鸡。
I don't want to hear
corn!
我不想听陈词滥调！
Everyone says it's a great movie, but I think it's just
corn.
人人都说这是部好电影，但我觉得无非又是老一套。
There was an old mill that really did grind
corn.
有一个真正碾磨玉米的老磨坊。
Its subsidiaries, including COFCO International, COFCO Trading, COFCO Grains & Cereals, and COFCO Oils & Oilseeds, procured agricultural products primarily cover core categories such as edible oils, rice, wheat, corn, sugar, cotton and dairy at the signing ceremony at the National Exhibition and Convention Center, the venue of CIIE, in Shanghai.
其子公司，包括中粮国际、中粮贸易、中粮粮油和中粮油籽，在上海进博会举办地国家会展中心举行的签字仪式上采购的农产品主要涵盖食用油、大米、小麦、玉米、食糖、棉花和乳制品等核心类别。
In addition to importing agricultural products such as corn, sorghum, wheat and soybeans from traditional agricultural powerhouses like the United States, Canada and Brazil, COFCO Group increased its imports from countries and regions participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, including Argentina, South Africa, Kazakhstan, Cambodia and Bulgaria, incorporating products such as barley, wheat, corn and rice.
除了从美国、加拿大和巴西等传统农业大国进口玉米、高粱、小麦和大豆等农产品外，中粮集团还增加了从阿根廷、南非、哈萨克斯坦、柬埔寨和保加利亚等“一带一路”倡议参与国家和地区的进口，玉米和大米。
COFCO Corporation has become one of Brazil's major exporters and processors of corn, soybeans and raw sugar.
中粮集团已成为巴西玉米、大豆和原糖的主要出口商和加工商之一。
Sales at Corn Seed & Traits decreased by 15.8xa0percent (Fx & portfolio adj. )
玉米种子和性状的销售额下降了15.8个百分点（Fx和投资组合调整）
In addition to importing edible oil, sugar, meat, alcohol and dairy products from overseas markets, the company purchased grain and bulk commodities such as wheat, corn, sorghum and cotton to meet the demand of domestic food processing enterprises.
除了从海外市场进口食用油、食糖、肉类、酒精和乳制品外，该公司还采购了小麦、玉米、高粱和棉花等粮食和大宗商品，以满足国内食品加工企业的需求。
"Food security can only be guaranteed by sufficient arable land and modern agricultural technologies," said Zhao Jiuran, director of the Corn Research Center, which is part of the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forest.
“粮食安全只能通过充足的耕地和现代农业技术来保证，”北京农林科学院下属的玉米研究中心主任赵久然说。
Corn Seed & Traits posted sales gains, primarily due to price increases in all regions.
玉米种子和性状的销售额有所增长，主要是由于所有地区的价格上涨。
The company has been making substantial progress in using agricultural waste like corn stock to make synthetic materials.
该公司在利用玉米库存等农业废弃物生产合成材料方面取得了实质性进展。
Its current experiment using corn stock to make lactic acid has been going well and is expected to solve overreliance on food grains in the long run.
目前，该公司利用玉米原料生产乳酸的实验进展顺利，有望从长远来看解决对粮食的过度依赖。
"Unlike most synthetic materials made from petroleum, we make similar products from plants, as bio-based polyamides－the basic raw material used to produce a variety of products－are extracted from corn and the stalks of other crops," said Zang Huiqing, vice-president of Cathay Biotech.
国泰生物科技副总裁臧惠清表示：“与大多数由石油制成的合成材料不同，我们从植物中生产类似的产品，因为用于生产各种产品的基本原料生物基聚酰胺是从玉米和其他作物的秸秆中提取的。”。
They debuted as e-commerce livestreamers and sold agricultural products like corn, cherries and edible fungus.
他们以电子商务直播的身份首次亮相，销售玉米、樱桃和食用菌等农产品。
At Corn Seed & Traits, sales were up 9.2 percent (Fx& portfolio adj. )
玉米种子和性状的销售额增长了9.2%（Fx和投资组合调整）
China's biggest food processor COFCO was founded in 1949, and the group's grain trade, rice processing, oil processing, deep corn processing, and sugar trade and processing business have continued to consolidate their top positions in the country by the end of 2021.
中国最大的食品加工企业中粮集团成立于1949年，截至2021年底，该集团的粮食贸易、大米加工、油脂加工、玉米深加工以及食糖贸易和加工业务继续巩固其在全国的领先地位。
However, milk remains the major ingredient of Magnum ice cream in Europe, along with other ingredients such as cream, sugar, and corn syrup.
In October, the Dettol brand launched its first ever alcohol-free hand sanitizer, using bio-renewable active ingredients, including lactic acid sourced from cane sugar, and citric acid sourced from corn, to boost efficacy.
"The distillation process in baijiu (Chinese white liquor) production will produce a cereal byproduct called distillers grains, which is a mix of organic waste like corn, rice and various kind of microorganisms.
Its warehousing facilities are made up of large house granaries, shallow bins, tower silos and various oil storage tankers, with main varieties of reserves including wheat, rice, corn, soybeans, cotton and edible oils.
It also develops and markets conventional vegetable and corn seeds for Chinese farmers through its wholly-owned subsidiary and a joint venture.
Bioethanol is commonly made from biomass such as corn or sugarcane, which is mostly used as a motor fuel, mainly as a biofuel additive for gasoline.
The United States is the biggest producer and consumer of bioethanol fuel in the world with an annual production of more than 45 million metric tons with corn as the raw material.
In the farmlands the company plants paddy rice, oilseed, sunflower and corn and provides for professional experts to support planting.
China and Bulgaria in August 2013 signed a trade treaty on corn exports and in May 2017, China built an agricultural model zone in the country, which was led by Tianjin Food Group.
Other recent deals cover rice, wheat and corn in Thailand, Laos and Kazakhstan.
This investment follows the company's $112 million investment in April to expand its deep corn production plant in Songyuan, northeastern Jilin province.
Cargill Inc, the US-based agricultural conglomerate, will invest $112 million to expand the capacity of its corn processing facility in Songyuan in northeastern China's Jilin province, its global head said on Monday.
The park is designed to facilitate both corn processing and trading, with an annual processing capacity of up to two million metric tons by 2020.
According to its plan, futures warehouses will also be built for commodities such as corn and starches.
Cargill's food safety and technology center will focus on testing, research and training in the area of food safety, as well as process improvement and product development for the corn processing and food ingredient industries.
"The park welcomes companies along the corn processing and trading value chain," said Liu Jun, president of Cargill China.
The company managed to reduce reserves in over 7,000 storehouses by 100 million metric tons of corn, 17 million metric tons of unhusked rice, 10.66 million metric tons of wheat, over 2 million metric tons of soybeans, 420,000 metric tons of rapeseed oil and 2.5 million metric tons of cotton, Deng said.
As the world's biggest edible oil market by consumption volume, China consumes not only a range of edible oils (like those made from corn, sunflower, soybean, rapeseed, peanut, groundnut) but also millions of metric tons of edible blended oil.
In addition to supplying blended edible oil, it also produces corn oil, sunflower seed oil, peanut oil, rapeseed oil and soybean oil.
This is true for much of China, however seeing the wide open corn fields that use modern technology to produce yields similar to the world's best was an eye-opener.
In 2016, China's corn oil producer Xiwang Foodstuffs acquired Canadian supplement maker Iovate Health Sciences International Inc for $730 million, making the latter the largest player in the country since then.
China's push to further expand production and consumption of bioethanol this year in order to clean up the environment, while seeking more channels to consume corn and grain stockpiles, has created a huge biofuel market that is tempting global chemical companies.
The chemical company is seeking Chinese partners to commercialize its technology named Sunliquid that converts agricultural residues such as cereal straw, into cellulosic ethanol for vehicles, a form of renewable energy that can be produced from crops such as corn and potatoes.
According to Han Jun, chief of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, China, currently the world's third-largest bioethanol producer that uses nearly 2.6 million tons a year, could see its annual capacity of bioethanol reach 10 million tons, which would require about 30 million tons of corn, if the plan were to be successfully carried out.
Now the farm grows wheat, corn and cotton in Tajikistan and raises cows in Ukraine.
The farm in Tajikistan has achieved full mechanization and two harvests of corn and wheat per year, a shift from the country's "one harvest per year" tradition.
In 2015, it provided auxiliary decision making for the corn drought in Hebei province, paying indemnities of 400 million yuan.
After Suvow gained its organic production certification, including corn, silage corn and guinea grass for three consecutive years, its other products, like dairy cattle, milk and whole milk powder,also have been certified recently.
"He started plant breeding in mid 1960s, first in soybeans and later in corn.
Its soybean and corn seed genetics also have a strong presence in South America and other international markets.
The seed company is now cooperating in both corn and soybean research with several Chinese companies.
"We will achieve agricultural commodity imports by 2020 of 30 million tons of corn, 20 million tons of soybeans, 10 million tons of rice, 10 million tons of wheat, and 5 million tons of sugar.
As part of the deal, they will jointly own and operate a truck, rail and barge terminal in Cahokia, Illinois, on the Mississippi River, the main pipeline that supplies exporters along the US Gulf Coast with corn and soybeans.
The facility can receive about 180,000 bushels (4572.24 metric tons) of corn per hour, delivered by truck and rail, and can load two river barges simultaneously at a rate of about 60,000 bushels per hour.
The deal draws a more direct link between a large Chinese food importer and farmers in the world's largest corn exporter and second biggest soybean exporter.
Speaking at the Potatoes in Practice conference at the institute's Balruddery Farm this month, Xisen general manager Hu Baigeng said the potato is China's fourth most important staple behind rice, wheat and corn.
A researcher uses a pipette to develop an assay to detect a specific gene of corn at a lab in the Syngenta Biotech Center in Beijing.
Apart from managing livestock farm in Koryukovka and fields of corn, oats and lupine in Naumovka, Fanda rents a forest of 2,700 hectares, where it plans to raise wild animals, such as deer and hunting birds.
A researcher uses a pipette to develop method to detect specific gene of corn at a lab in Syngenta Biotech Center in Beijing.
"China stands as the primary market for US agricultural exports and also ranks as the leading purchaser of US commodities like soybeans, corn and cotton, among others," he said.
In a move to support the development of the agricultural sector, import tariffs on sweet corn, coriander and burdock seeds will be trimmed, while export tariffs on high-purity aluminum will be reduced to foster the growth of the country's new materials industry, the commission said.
Import tariffs on sweet corn, coriander and burdock seeds will also be trimmed, the commission said, adding that export tariffs on high-purity aluminum will be reduced, fostering the growth of China's new materials industry.
After three years of record growth, geopolitical tensions, adverse weather and higher energy and natural resource costs, global food prices will decline in 2024, particularly those of staples like sugar, coffee, corn and soybeans, reducing consumer spending, Rabobank predicted.
LAC countries with abundant natural resources export numerous agricultural products ranging from corn and meat to coffee beans.
After receiving 53,000 metric tons of South African feed corn for the first time in China at a port in Dongguan, Guangdong province, in early May, COFCO Group announced that it had procured 158,000 tons of corn from South Africa in the first half of this year.
BEIJING — After a voyage of more than a month from Santos Port, Brazil, a cargo ship loaded with 68,000 metric tons of Brazilian corn arrived on Jan 7 at a port in South China's Guangdong province, marking the first batch of Brazilian corn imported in bulk into China.
China's move to add Brazilian corn to its shopping list will help the former further expand corn import channels and lower geo economic risks so as to better secure its grain security, said market watchers on Monday.
The first bulk vessel carrying 68,000 metric tons of Brazilian corn to China arrived at a port in Dongguan, Guangdong province, on Saturday, marking the establishment of a new corridor for the South American country to export corn to the Chinese market, according to a statement released by COFCO Corp, the country's largest grain trader and foodstuff producer by sales revenue.
To avoid risks caused by external factors such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict and falling US corn shipments to China, it is practical for China to diversify corn import sources, said Ding Lixin, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing.
The volume of China's corn imports dropped 26.89 percent on a yearly basis to 19.75 million tons between January and November last year, while its bulk corn imports from the United States and Ukraine dropped 26.3 percent and 31.95 percent on a yearly basis, respectively, said China's General Administration of Customs.
Ma Tongchao, head of corn business at COFCO Trading, a COFCO subsidiary, said the group looks forward to strengthening China-Brazil agricultural cooperation and is willing to import high-quality Brazilian agricultural products to China.
These efforts will not only offer a huge market for Brazilian farmers to sell their corn and other agricultural products to China, but also meet domestic demand.
China and Brazil — the latter being a major corn producer and exporter — reached an agreement on corn imports in May 2022.
Over 130 Brazilian traders and cooperatives were given the green light to export corn to China in November last year, said the GAC.
Wang Yunchao, vice-president of COFCO International, COFCO's international arm, said more vessels loaded with Brazilian corn, purchased by COFCO, are currently en route to China.
Brazil in the southern hemisphere and China in the northern hemisphere complement each other in corn harvesting seasons, and importing corn from Brazil has diversified the supply channels of corn in China, thereby easing seasonal and regional fluctuations in supply, COFCO said.
"Apart from importing edible oil, sugar, meat, alcohol and dairy products from overseas markets, we have purchased grain and bulk commodities such as wheat, corn and sorghum to meet the demand of domestic food processing companies," said Luan Richeng, COFCO's president.
- A decade ago, villagers in the mountain township of Shichao, in Southwest China's Guizhou province, were knee-deep in poverty, scraping a meager living by growing corn.
He made ends meet by growing rice, corn crops and rubber trees.
Additionally, to reduce the cost of raising cattle, the banner has invested more than 10 million yuan for the introduction of straw comprehensive utilization technology, that can turn corn straw that would typically cause pollution when burning into "sweet pastry".
He added that the current growth of corn, middle-season rice, soybean, and other major autumn crops is the same as last year.
Fu Linghui, the spokesperson of the NBS, told media that Russia is a major exporter of energy, food and fertilizers while Ukraine accounts for a considerable portion of the world's corn and wheat exports.
The impacts of tighter external supplies of wheat and corn to China are likely to be limited given the country's relatively low grain import reliance, grains' small weight in the CPI and the ability to substitute across different types of grains, a Goldman Sachs report said, adding only 4 percent of wheat consumed in China is imported.
According to Wu from Oxford Economics, there remains an upside risk to China's food inflation as Ukraine accounts for 30 percent of China's corn imports used in feeding hogs, while pork prices serve as a main component of the CPI.
According to Tang Yao, an associate professor of economics at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management, Russia-Ukraine tensions will have a limited impact on the Chinese economy, despite Chinese corn and edible oil imports from Ukraine being expected to be affected.
Russia and Ukraine jointly account for around 29 percent of global wheat exports, 19 percent of world corn supplies and 80 percent of global sunflower oil exports, industry estimates showed.
Official Chinese Customs data said China imported 8.24 million tons of corn from Ukraine in 2021, which is mainly used for animal feed, accounting for about 30 percent of the nation's total corn imports.
Zheng Lei, chief economist at Glory Sun Financial Group, said the situation will have a limited impact on China's currently stable grain supply, although Ukraine is an important exporter of corn and barley to China.
"It may push up commodity prices in the short term, especially in the face of soaring global food prices, which will further fuel food inflation around the world," he said, adding it will generate some pressure in terms of transportation and prices on China's imports of two major agricultural products of sunflower seed oil and corn from Ukraine this year.
Meanwhile, China will greatly increase the capacity of soybean and oil crops and promote the combined planting of corn and soybeans, while increasing subsidies for rotation of arable land and incentives for counties that are large producers of edible oils, it said.
The minimum price the government pays to purchase rice and wheat will be increased, and subsidies for corn and soybean producers will be made more stable, it added.
Yu, founder of private tutoring giant New Oriental Education & Technology, and his colleagues debuted as e-commerce livestreamers and sold－wait for it－farm products like corn, cherries and edible fungus.
In June 2021, Cargill inked a cooperation agreement with the United Nations World Food Programme, aiming to help corn growers in northeast China better cope with risks and promote sustainable farming.
In the meantime, China imported 15.3 million metric tons of corn from the US, soaring 318.5 percent year-on-year, data from the General Administration of Customs showed.
The commission will closely monitor commodity prices, strengthen market regulation over illegal behavior related to hiking prices, and secure the supply of corn, pork and other basic goods for households, according to statements from the meetings.
""Increased demand from China, along with a supply constraints on corn and soybeans caused by a drought in Brazil, have driven a surge in global food prices, providing a further boost for American farmers," it said.
The NDRC said it was necessary to handle the price swings in commodities such as iron ore, copper and corn in a better manner and said comprehensive and timely regulatory measures will help strengthen market expectations.
With high flexibility, durability and effectiveness, DJI has expanded its users' coverage among South African farmers, ranging from corn planters to orange and tea growers.
The imports of corn and wheat surged by 437.8 percent and 131.2 percent year-on-year to 6.73 million tons and 2.93 million tons, respectively.
A breadbasket and petroleum base of China, Heilongjiang has seven key industrial chains including the petrochemical sector and corn processing.
Song, 45, has been growing wheat and corn for years, but she now also works at the cafe located in Liyukou village of Huyi district in Xi'an.
COFCO Group, China's largest food trader in terms of sales revenue, said recently that a vessel carrying 53,000 metric tons of feed corn arrived at a port in Dongguan, Guangdong province, in early May.
This was China's first feed corn import from South Africa.
The country's grain output is expected to reach 694 million tonnes in 2023, with the output of rice and wheat remaining stable and that of corn and soybean increasing, according to a report released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on the outlook of China's agricultural sector.
Sun Baiyu, a manager of a food trade company in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, had to visit local customs frequently to complete customs clearance procedures for exports of canned corn and bamboo shoots.
At an agricultural research and breeding base in South China's island province of Hainan, Zhang Qiuzhi, an associate professor with Beijing University of Agriculture, led a team of researchers in carrying out a series of testing for more than 40 mu (2.68 hectares) of silage corn.
"We can't afford to waste a single day at the base," Zhang said, explaining that the climate conditions of the base allow them to grow two or three seasons of corn a year, which speeds up the research process a lot.