The trade is interested in buying Bulgarian/Romanian feed wheat for July/August at €157/MT ($167/MT) FOB. While Ukrainian origin might be available at the same price, one factor rmakes it much less attractive. Milling Wheat The FOB market in the Black Sea remains firm despite the weaker domestic market in Russia. The price for 12.5 protein wheat in central Russia and the Volga region was $4-6 lower last week or down about $10-12 from early February. However, the logistics remain difficult as winter is not over yet and the flow of wheat to the Black Sea and Azov Sea ports has not increased significantly. Russia has exported about 19 MMT so far this season, which is about unchanged from the same time last year. If the exports do not acceler...
The corn and soy complex closed higher, with the wheat market mixed, as winter wheat closed up but spring wheat and livestock ended lower. Part of the strength for corn and soybeans may have been a weather premium, as crop planting has started out fast but warm weather has been slow to develop...
Reflect for a moment on what you eat. There is a lot of advice out there in the ether about what you should eat, but really, what do you currently eat and how much? The good people at the USDA have some data for you, to help you answer that question. USDA says that we eat quite a bit of meat. L...
WPI recently completed an expansion of our methodology for estimating and forecasting U.S. and global soybean crushing margins. The new approach incorporates the energy market’s expanding influence on the oilseed sector and the structural changes in global biofuel demand. This report is i...
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