Wheat Argentina’s wheat harvest reached almost 25 percent of the area last week. Harvesting in the north of the country is considered finished and yields are 30 percent below historical levels. Meanwhile, the harvest is progressing in central and northern Cordoba and Santa Fe with very heterogeneous yields. Yields range from 1.0-2.5 MT/ha and in the southern portions of the core wheat area (which was affected by lack of moisture and heavy frosts), yields are 60 percent below historical levels. It will be important to follow yields when the harvesters enter in the center and south of Buenos Aires, which is the country’s largest wheat producer. Sometimes it is difficult to estimate losses and they are quantified during har...
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...
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