The Egyptian Company for Agriculture and Rural Development (ECARD), a government agency, will restart its contract growing program with the main focus on one particular crop. It is hoped that this effort will help substantially reduce the need for imported stocks. Regional Updates MIDDLE EAST/MEDITERRANEAN COMMENTS As most involved have experienced, arbitration is a common way to settle disputes in the grain trade, mainly via GAFTA or FOSFA arbitration and NAEGA for U.S FOB shipments. Until now, such mediation with companies in Saudi Arabia did not go well due to that country’s own arbitration and enforcement laws that did not conform much to international standards. However, Saudi Arabia now has a new arbitration law that is based large...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
Key Takeaways: India is excluding sugarcane juice, sugar syrup, and B-heavy molasses from its 2026/27 fuel ethanol procurement program to protect domestic sugar supplies, potentially shifting additional demand toward corn and rice. India’s corn consumption for ethanol has surged from jus...
Developer's Note 24 August 2026: WPI recently completed an exercise that updated the codebase for this app and solved some of the discrepancies between our five-year average calculation and USDA's. There are a few lingering cases where early (late) starts (finishes) to the crop cycle resu...
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