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China cancels America’s ‘goodwill’ farm visit

Bloomberg In a quick change of events, the Montana Farm Bureau Federation said a planned visit by Chinese officials to its state’s farms is cancelled. The group was told by the Chinese embassy that the delegation “had an adjustment of their agenda” and they’re headed back to China earlier than planned, Rebecca Colnar, a spokeswoman for the Montana bureau, said. ...

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Drought, wildfires inflict double whammy on Indonesian crops

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Bloomberg Wildfires, smoke and drought are inflicting an increasingly painful toll on Indonesian agriculture, hurting everything from oil palm plantations to rubber trees and rice fields. Raging forest fires in Sumatra and Borneo may curb supplies of palm oil and rubber, while a longer than usual dry season in Java has wilted some of the country’s rice crop, which is ...

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China energy plan sees coal-hauling rail line

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Bloomberg There’s nothing quite like a massive coal rail to demonstrate China’s loyalty to the dirtiest of fossil fuels. Almost a decade in the making, the nearly $30 billion Haoji Railway will start around the end of this month and eventually haul as much as 200 million tons from key producing regions in the north to consumers in the south. ...

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