This summary is for the period July 23-29, 2021. Wheat: Net sales of 308,300 metric tons (MT) for 2021/2022 were down 40 percent from the previous week and 28 percent from the prior 4-week average. Corn: Net sales of 68,200 MT for 2020/2021 were down noticeably from the previous week, but up noticeably from the prior 4-week average. Soybeans: Net sales of 11,400 MT for 2020/2021 were down noticeably from the previous week and down 33 percent from the prior 4-week average. Soybean Cake and Meal: Net sales of 135,400 MT for 2020/2021 were up 55 percent from the previous week and 24 percent from the prior 4-week average. Soybean Oil: Net sales of 3,200 MT for 2020/2021 were up 48 percent from the...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. naval escorts through the Strait of Hormuz and renewed Iranian attacks on vessels and UAE infrastructure are sustaining geopolitical risk across energy and commodity markets Broad profit taking and weaker crude oil triggered a pullback across grains, signaling...
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on legislative proposals concerning food regulation and oversight. The hearing was focused on a wide range of bills, in keeping with the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda, ranging from anti–plant-based dairy produc...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt and Algeria, in addition to Israel, are being monitored by Ukraine as possible destinations for grain taken by Russia from occupied Ukrainian regions. In April, Egypt had said that it would “stop accepting such shipmen...
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