Export Sales and Shipments for November 22-28, 2024. Wheat: Net sales of 378,200 metric tons (MT) for 2024/2025 were up 3 percent from the previous week, but down 10 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 322,400 MT were down 26 percent from the previous week, but up 17 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Mexico (87,100 MT), the Philippines (86,600 MT), South Korea (42,300 MT), Venezuela (34,100 MT), and Algeria (28,500 MT).Corn: Net sales of 1,732,400 MT for 2024/2025 were up 63 percent from the previous week and 4 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 1,045,400 MT were up 3 percent from the previous week and 17 percent from the prior 4-week average. The d...
Weather concerns and the impacts of the war in Iran helped push wheat and corn to sharp gains Tuesday, with both markets blowing past key technical resistance levels. The weather is now coupled with geopolitical tensions that look increasingly hard to resolve, which is giving funds the perfect...
Congress is moving forward with its FY 2027 spending bills, while also still working to address FY 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is still in a shutdown. The House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and passed its FY 2027 bill. The House bill prov...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Tunisian researchers have been able to fully sequence the genomes of two local durum wheat types that have been grown in Tunisia for generations. They say that this “could be the key to developing more climate-resistant duru...
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