News Updates MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST COMMENTS There has been some tightening of Turkey's GMO inspection rules in the past couple of weeks. This mainly is due to the discovery of GMO rice that had entered the country illegally. The inspection rule had required that 20 percent of a shipment needs to be sampled for analysis, but the new directive requires 100 percent of all products that are possibly GMO to be sampled, including corn and soybeans and products derived from these items. Importers in Turkey have reported that cargoes will not be discharged until the GMO approvals have been received. Previously, cargo could be discharged to bonded facilities awaiting approval. With the much larger shipment sampling requirement, it is expec...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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