Large Soybean and Soymeal Sales Reported by USDA Today's USDA export sales reported indicated U.S. exporters recorded large sales of soybeans and soymeal in the week ending 29 March. Soybean export sales totaled 1,112,900 MT. Of that amount, 406,900 MT are for shipment in 2011/12 and 706,000 MT are for shipment in 2012/13. As usual, the main buyers are Chinese firms with new purchases of 257,200 MT for 2011/12 and 525,000 MT for 2012/13. Other large buyers were Indonesia (105,100 MT), Mexico (41,700 MT) and Egypt (31,700 MT).U.S. soymeal export sales last week totaled 174,000 MT. That was 34 percent higher than the average of the last month. The main buyers, all in the Western Hemisphere, were Mexico (85,100 MT), Venezuela (39,500 MT), C...
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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