Regional News Kazakhstan’s grain harvest is expected to coincide with heavy rains forecast for the next few weeks, which will likely cause a significant deterioration of the crop’s quality. Last week, the EU Commission’s MARS crop monitoring unit adjusted its 2024/25 yield forecast for the bloc, with the major trends being that of smaller grain and oilseed yields. The weather forecast remains challenging with areas of too much moisture in western/central Europe while the eastern portion of the bloc sees high temperatures and drought.
Milling Wheat Wheat markets are largely trading two different and diverging trends: the increasing quality and production potential of the U.S. crop and the exact...
What You Need to Know Today: Crude oil prices dropped sharply with traffic flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. There were reports that Iran was behind an attack on a cargo ship near the coast of Oman, which would be a violation of the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran. Pr...
On Wednesday, the White House submitted a national security supplemental spending request for $87.6 billion. The majority of the request includes funding for the conflict in the Middle East, but there are agricultural provisions as well. The supplemental funding package includes more than $11 b...
Can we really expect a bushel of corn to carry an environmental passport throughout the entire food system? One that reliably documents its carbon footprint, biodiversity impacts, water use, soil carbon, and other environmental attributes all the way from the farm field to the consumer? This is...
