Higher Wheat Procurement Could Be Problematic In the first three weeks of the wheat procurement drive, state and central agencies have acquired more than 20 MMT at the set price of Rs.17,350/MT ($262/MT), which is higher than last year.
Procurement is up in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana against last year but fairly slow in other states due to delayed harvest and damage in some belts. The total procurement was 30.824 MMT in wheat’s MY 2017/18, but the government of India (GOI) expects it to reach 33 MMT or higher this year (MY 2018/19) based on estimated production of 97.11 MMMT. As of 1 April 2018, the wheat stocks in the central pool stood at 13.231 MMT, much higher than anticipated as the pickup by states was much lower, versus 8.05...
The corn and soy complex closed higher, with the wheat market mixed, as winter wheat closed up but spring wheat and livestock ended lower. Part of the strength for corn and soybeans may have been a weather premium, as crop planting has started out fast but warm weather has been slow to develop...
Real GDP grew at a 2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2026, slightly below the consensus expectation of 2.3 percent but above the 0.5 percent growth in Q4 2025. The GDP number matches the average annualized pace of growth since the peak back in late 2007, right before the Financial P...
Reflect for a moment on what you eat. There is a lot of advice out there in the ether about what you should eat, but really, what do you currently eat and how much? The good people at the USDA have some data for you, to help you answer that question. USDA says that we eat quite a bit of meat. L...
