China is the number one producer of rice, wheat, potatoes, and many other commodities. However, it trails U.S. corn production by 42 percent. Chinese corn production set a record in 2015, but since then, it’s been too wet or too hot in the country’s three major corn-producing regions. 2019 was one of the wettest years in the past two decades across China. It was followed by near-record-hot conditions in 2020. A Successful Farming article says 2021 is looking at a big change in weather conditions with things trending much drier for most of China’s corn-growing season. The weather will be out of sync as the early spring looks cold and wet, likely delaying the start of planting. The core summer months in China will be much drier, trending toward some of the driest weather in over a decade. There might be enough soil moisture to carry some crops through the season, but there will no doubt be a fair amount of risk that will likely have traders searching through weather maps. Chinese farmers are less likely to have the yield-producing hybrids that farmers in America can access.
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