Another week of war in Ukraine and another week of dramatic impacts in the global oilseeds market. Not as dramatic as the wheat and corn market, but policymakers are reacting to increasing concerns about food security. Fertilizer Foundation Crops do not grow well without fertilizer and it has become the cause de jour. Russia has been supplying around 20 percent of the globe’s fertilizer, including 25 percent of consumption in South America. The U.S. can punish Moscow by stopping imports but even if South American countries keep buying, prices for this critical input have doubled. AgroConsult says the impact of fertilizer prices will be a slower expansion in Brazil’s soybean production area. Less concerned about food security,...
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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