Regional UpdatesMEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGIONTunisia will shortly receive a shipment of 33,000 MT of U.S. corn, the first shipment in quite a while. The U.S. Grains Council office in Tunis says that they expect more U.S. corn imports in the coming weeks.Morocco has a combo vessel of U.S. soymeal and DDGS enroute from the U.S. with a total cargo of 33,000 MT. Morocco is a regular importer of U.S. soymeal and DDGS. Saudi’s SALIC – Saudi Agriculture and Livestock Investment Company – is expected to purchase the 65 percent of Singapore based Olam Group that it does not own based on SALIC’s recent offer. If completed this will allow SALIC to expand its international agri-food operations. Olam is in the ag...
An amendment to the U.S. House farm bill, aiming to remove the Save Our Bacon Act language in Section 12006 that would have stripped language to prohibit California’s Proposition 12, Massachusetts’ Question 3, and up to 500 state agricultural laws across the country, was blocked by...
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What Matters Today... Fed holds rates steady as inflation uncertainty tied to the Iran conflict pressures equities and supports broader commodity risk premia Biofuel demand accelerating globally, with U.S. imports of used cooking oil and strong soyoil demand reinforcing upside across the soy c...
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