Soil Moisture Top soil moisture over the Pampa Humeda region has improved with the recent rainfall in the country. The weather forecast predicts abundant showers for Monday, 19 March and Tuesday, 20 March over the region. This could delay soybean harvest activities. Soymeal ARGENTINA There was some farmer selling in Argentina during the past few days (a daily average of about 0.15 MMT). Crushing margins recovered, staying about $14/MT (gross). March shipments are complete in Argentina; April shipments finally found some action and were trading at -5 SMK and -6 SMK. Because of the 10-day port workers' strike, the average waiting time in Upriver ports is now about 14 days. Wheat ARGENTINA Last Friday, the Argentine government granted...
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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