Russian Grain Market: 24-31 January 2012 GRAIN COMMODITIES AND FLOUR Russia's domestic grain market last week showed a clear trend of increasing prices for all grain products. The sharpest increase took place in corn prices (+9 percent). The crop is now almost equal in price to feed wheat and is even more expensive than barley in all regions except in the South.Both milling wheat and feed wheat prices increased mainly due to rumors about the probable implementation of export duties when the volume of exported wheat from the 2011 harvest reaches 24 MMT. Traders assumed that the price would rise until export is restricted/banned (according to estimates, exporters will reach the limit on 1 April 2012). For that same reason, traders don't s...
What You Need to Know Today: Declining crop conditions ratings and shaky results from the Pro Farmer crop tour sent grains sharply higher on Tuesday. The Pro Farmer tour in Ohio pegged the state yield at 180.18 BPA, about 5.5 BPA below the tour’s 2025 estimate. Similarly, the Pro Farmer...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt is the largest importer of Brazilian maize in the first six months of 2026. Egypt imported about 28.4 percent of maize exports, or about 1.7 million MT. Iran was the third-largest importer at 14.5 percent, or 900,000 MT, fol...
Based on a Depression-era statute, President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of exports to the U.S., or about 5.2 percent of the $383 billion worth of goods the U.S. imported from Canada in 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Of that total, about $39.3 billion was agricu...
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