date:Oct 18, 2012
na recently lost a part of its hog herd to disease, and the country is rebuilding its live supplies. Some of that rebuilding is copied on the U.S. model of large industrial operations, which will expand China's need for corn.
Overall, China uses nearly 70 percent of its corn crop for domestic feeding. In contrast, only about 41.5 percent of the 2012 U.S. corn crop is expected to go toward U.S. livestock.
Meanwhile, as of its October supply-demand report, USDA seemed a little bit more optimisti