Grain Highlights 05.03.2023

According to data from FranceAgriMer, as of 27.02.2023, 95% of the winter wheat crops in France are in good and excellent condition (93% a week earlier), as well as 92% of the durum crops (91%). – SovEcon lowered their forecast for the Russian wheat production in 2023 from 86 million tons to 85.3 million tons, […]

Grain Highlights 01.03.2023

Turkey has canceled a tender to buy 48,000 tons of unrefined sunseed oil due to high prices. Offers were in the range of 1,159 – 1,173.8 USD/ton C&F. – From the beginning of the season to 01.03.2023, 32,286 million tons of grain were exported from Ukraine (43,515 a year earlier), including 5,207 million tons in […]

Grain Highlights 30.02.2023

Turkey has bought 300,000 tons of milling wheat with 12.5% protein from Russia with delivery within March – April and prices of 308.1 – 310.9 USD/ton C&F. – According to data from the Russian Grain Union, 2.95 million tons of wheat were exported from Russia in February (+24% compared to February 2022). Barley exports were […]

Grain Highlights 28.02.2023

Stratégie Grains has raised its forecast for the 2023/24 EU rapeseed production by 100,000 tons to 19.6 million tons (19.5 in 2022/23). – Over the week of February 20-26, 337,200 tons of wheat were exported from the Russian port of Novorossiysk, including 69,200 tons for Saudi Arabia, 59,700 tons for Bangladesh and 51,200 tons for Turkey. […]

Grain Highlights 26.02.2023

Egypt’s state company GASC has purchased 79,000 tons of soybean and sunseed oils. 27,000 tons of sunseed oil have been bought at a price of 1,170 USD/ton C&F. – In March, the export tax on Russian sunseed oil will be 1,068.1 rubles/ton (0 in the last five months). The export tax on sunseed meal will be […]

Grain Highlights 25.02.2023

Authorities in France will limit the use of water to irrigate crops in some parts of the country. This is done for the first time since 1959. – During this week, the Ukrainian government will offer Turkey and the UN an extension of the grain deal for at least one year. Until now, the agreements […]

Grain Highlights 22.02.2023

In Brazil, 61.1% of the production is transported by road, 20.7% by rail and 13.6% by barge. The cost of transportation from the central part of Moto Grosso to the port of Paranagua has been within the range of 1.74 – 1.92 USD/bushel until now. – From 01.03.2023, the export tax on sunseed oil from […]

Grain Highlights 21.02.2023

Rusagrotrans has lowered its forecast for the grain production in Russia in 2023 to 125.4 million tons (127 in the previous estimate), including wheat production of 79.7 million tons (81.5). – Rusagrotrans again lowers its forecast for the export of wheat from Russia in February to 3.55 million tons (3.8 the previous estimate), since 1.55 […]

Grain Highlights 20.02.2023

Over the March-June period, the export of corn from Argentina will decrease by 40% to 8.7 million tons, according to the forecast of the Grain Exchange in Rosario. – After the introduction of export quotas from Russia during the period February 15-20, the country exported 412,000 tons of wheat (-7.4% compared to the previous year), […]

Grain Highlights 17.02.2023

As of February 16, 2023, 11.23 million hectares of grain crops were harvested in Ukraine, and 53.88 million tons of grain were harvested. Corn was harvested on 94% of the areas and 26.53 million tons of corn were harvested. – In the week of February 22-28, the export tax on Russian wheat increased to 5,177.2 […]