Analysis of agricultural product prices, supply chains, corporate behavior, and industry trends.
The 30-minute delivery of fresh food e-commerce platforms such as Alibaba Hema, Meituan Xiaoxiang, JD 7Fresh and Pupu puts the pressure of 3-minute picking and customer complaint deductions on pickers and delivery riders; consumers also discuss off-peak ordering, buying fewer heavy items and shopping offline in the comments.
After bananas were cleared out in Nansha, Guangzhou, elderly sugarcane farmers are selling black-skin table cane for one or two yuan a stalk, relying on livestreaming, stalls and cane cutting to recover some costs, but still have to plant next season after losses.
As the EU–Mercosur free trade agreement was about to be signed, EU farmers in Brussels hurled potatoes at the EU headquarters building, asking who should bear the costs of the grain-price shock and green transition; Chinese smallholder farmers also face a similar cost-sharing question.
Jiang Ke joined McDonald’s with a passion for studying restaurant operations and served as a shift manager for seven months. From the 90-second service target in the back kitchen to the Smart Production System and shared store manager, she explains how McDonald’s operates like a factory and the pressure employees face.
From American cockroach coffee to the bankruptcy of the European insect protein unicorn Ÿnsect, insect protein has been packaged by capital as low-carbon feed and the answer to the food crisis; the energy costs, research disputes, and regulatory easing in industrial farming are moving “eating insects” from science fiction toward the dining table.
Canned condensed milk and milk powder made perishable milk portable and shelf-stable; companies such as Borden and Nestlé sold them to colonies, mines and urban households, while ice cream and chocolate pushed demand even higher.
After surveying a major dairy cow farming county in Shandong, Feng Xiaojun’s team at China Agricultural University believes smallholder family dairy farms should be supported as a priority, and that the disadvantaged position of small dairy farmers can be changed by regulating dairy companies’ purchasing and supporting dairy farmers to jointly establish processing operations.
Large dairy farms have more advanced equipment and technology yet do not guarantee safer raw milk production, distribution and processing; milk from smallholder dairy farms has slightly lower protein and milk fat, but meets the national standard, and Chinese residents’ protein intake is already adequate.
On the summer pasture by Qinghai Lake and the live-sheep trading route, Tibetan herders including Danzeng Zongzhi face the rebound in Tibetan sheep prices and the impact of imported meat: some borrow to keep herding going, while others go to Gonghe County to make a living as food-delivery drivers.
A northeast drone pilot lost fees in a power-line crash; XAG’s P80 returns dispute led large-scale grain farmer Zhao Mingliang to choose DJI. Agricultural shops and short-video streamers pitch repeated fertilising as scientific farming, but falling grain prices mean higher yields may not raise income.
