The Chinese market is becoming more and more important to farmers in North America.
Date：2017-08-29
China is fast growing in importance as an export market for farmers in the USA and Canada.
Indeed, the two North American countries have been battling especially fiercely with one another when competing for Chinese orders for pork.
In the first quarter of this year, Canada managed to export more pork to China that the USA, which is a rare occurrence.
Reuters report that this could be down to the fact that around half of the pork producers in the USA still use the drug ractopamine, which is banned in China.
In Canada, however, this drug is no longer in use.
The news follows our report from May that Ireland's farmers are also increasingly focusing their export attention towards China.
That's because there are growing concerns amongst farmers about the impact that Brexit will have on their business.