News Updates IRANIAN GRAIN IMPORTS: STOPPED OR DELAYED Estimates vary widely on how many ships and how much cargo is sitting in Iran ports waiting to discharge, but the total quantity of grain is reportedly close to 500,000 MT and the number of vessels ranges from 10 to 24. The sanctions recently introduced by the EU and the U.S. have made grain shipment payments very difficult, which has stopped discharge and curtailed any new shipments. Some delayed and afloat vessels are being rerouted to other destinations.Sanctions were not targeted at grain or food imports; but once in place, it was impossible to avoid these problems. An expert in the U.S. said there should be few shortages in Iran since the country only imports 15 percent of its fo...
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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