Large U.S. Export Sales Today's USDA export sales report once again showed U.S. exporters made large sales last week. The report indicated U.S. exporters sold 926,200 MT of soybeans for shipment in 2011/12 and 483,000 MT for shipment in 2012/13, which exceeded trade expectations. As usual, the largest buyer was China at 603,800 MT for the current marketing year and 365,000 MT for 2012/13. Other significant buyers were unknown destinations, Mexico, Japan and Taiwan.U.S. soymeal export sales last week totaled 221,100 MT for 2011/12 and 11,700 MT for 2012/13. The main buyers were the Philippines, Ireland, Peru and Latvia.U.S. soybean and soymeal export sales have picked up noticeably in the last few weeks as foreign buyers turn to the U.S...
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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