Export Sales and Shipments for the period June 28-July 4, 2024. Wheat: Net sales of 240,400 metric tons (MT) for 2024/2025 primarily for Thailand (60,800 MT), Japan (58,400 MT, including decreases of 1,300 MT), Indonesia (53,800 MT), Mexico (30,700 MT, including decreases of 1,500 MT), and Italy (20,000 MT), were offset by reductions for the Leeward and Windward Islands (400 MT). Export shipments of 294,600 MT were primarily to Japan (91,700 MT), South Korea (67,600 MT), Thailand (58,300 MT), Mexico (36,200 MT), and the Leeward and Windward Island (18,600 MT). Corn: Net sales of 538,300 MT for 2023/2024 were up 51 percent from the previous week, but down 13 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 879,100 MT...
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What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...