According to the FAO, Egypt's wheat and corn crops this year will be slightly above average size this year, but it expects that the country will have to import a near record 18.2 MMT of grain in 2014/15, a 5 percent increase from 2013/14.
News Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST COMMENTS The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins this upcoming weekend on either 28 or 29 June and ends about 29 July. Commercial activity will be reduced due to shorter office working hours for business, bank and government offices. As an example, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has set official government working hours as 9AM-2PM, two hours fewer per day than normal.Ukrainian exporters expect that Turkey will again this year be the main destination for t...
What You Need to Know Today: Oil prices surged today following reports of tanker attacks off the coast of Saudi Arabia by Houthi rebels and renewed U.S. threats to escalate military strikes against Iran, heightening concerns over potential disruptions to Middle East energy supplies. Brent crud...
Key Takeaways: The latest UN data shows solid progress reducing global hunger and food insecurity. The geography of hunger-affected people has shifted substantially, however, and Africa is now the most affected region. To understand why hunger patterns have shifted and what policy option...
USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report for 1 July will be released tomorrow. Analysts’ pre-report consensus estimates are for the total inventory on feed to be 102.2 percent of last year. Those estimates imply an on-feed inventory of 11.327 million head. If accurate, that would be the...
