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5 hours ago | Masha Belikova
The Russian Union of Grain Exporters (Rusgrain Union) will start publishing the recommended export prices for wheat, according to a note on the union's official Telegram Messenger channel, seen on Tuesday October 15.
7 hours ago | Marcela Caetano
Brazilian grain exporters association Anec raised its estimates for corn and soybean exports in October to 6.2 million tonnes and 4.3 million tonnes, respectively, the association said in its weekly report on Tuesday October 15.
7 hours ago | Sam Balf
European Union weekly wheat exports totaled 242,801 tonnes in the seven days to Sunday October 13, according to initial data from the European Commission on Tuesday October 15.
5 hours ago | Agricensus staff
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Wheat Commentary
4 hours ago
US and European wheat futures fell for third session on Tuesday October 15 on recent precipitation in Argentina and forecasts that much-needed rain will fall this weekend on hard red winter fields in the southern Great Plains and also in parts of the Black Sea region.
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4 hours ago
US corn futures moved lower on Tuesday October 15 on projected improvements in crop conditions and harvest that were above the five-year average.
Soybean Commentary
3 hours ago
Soybean futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange fell on Tuesday October 15, as external markets, harvest in the US and rain in Brazil put downward pressure on prices despite fresh US net sales reported by the USDA.
Vegoils Commentary
3 hours ago
Brent crude oil prices plummet on Tuesday October 15 contributing to decreases in Malaysian crude palm oil (CPO) and Chinese futures, but soyoil futures in Chicago recovered part of the sharp losses in the previous session, with the market borrowing some support from a bullish crush report.

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11 Oct 2024 | Marcela Caetano
The US Department of Agriculture has slightly reduced its estimate for US soybean production, missing market expectations, while keeping ending stocks in 2024/25 unchanged, the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report showed on Friday October 11.
11 Oct 2024 | Mark Shenk
The USDA reduced its estimates for US wheat stocks and production for the 2024/25 marketing year, while slightly increasing its expectations for global ending stocks as lower demand and higher beginning stocks forecasts outweighed an output decline.
11 Oct 2024 | Jocelyn Garcia
Corn production for 2024/25 was forecast to be 17.0 million bushels higher than last month's estimate, at 15.2 billion bu (386.18 million tonnes), with 183.8 bu per acre estimated, according to the USDA's October World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report update released on Friday October 11.
11 Oct 2024 | Eduardo Tinti
US and global balance sheets remained mostly unchanged for soybean and downstream soy products in the USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) monthly update released on Friday October 11, but futures across the complex fell after the release.
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9 Oct 2024 | Mark Shenk
The USDA’s influential World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report for October is projected to reduce estimates for both domestic and global 2024/25 crop ending stocks, according to analysts polled by Fastmarkets.
9 Oct 2024 | Marcela Caetano
Brazilian soybean and corn exports are expected to fall year on year in October, while soymeal shipments are forecast to increase, the country’s grain exporters association Anec said in its weekly report on Wednesday October 9.
9 Oct 2024 | Masha Belikova
Algeria’s state-backed grain import agency Inter-professional Office of Cereals (OAIC) has purchased up to 480,000 tonnes of milling wheat, likely to be sourced from the Black Sea, in a tender that closed on Wednesday October 9.
9 Oct 2024 | Jocelyn Garcia
Market participants polled by Fastmarkets ahead of the USDA’s October World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report update on Friday October 11 project that the agency will lower new and old crop ending stocks estimates, as well as lower 2024/25 production.
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33 minutes ago | Jocelyn Garcia
US corn crop and soybean harvest progress remained above the five-year averages in the week to Sunday October 13, the USDA’s weekly crop progress report showed on Tuesday October 15.
1 hour ago | Marcela Caetano
Soybean crushing in Brazil’s largest agricultural-producing state, Mato Grosso, reached 910,540 tonnes in September and a record volume so far in 2024, the state’s agriculture institute IMEA said in its weekly bulletin late on Monday October 14.
5 hours ago | Eduardo Tinti
US soybean crush volumes in September 2024 jumped to 170.32 million bushels, surpassing volumes crushed both in the previous month and in September 2023, as well as exceeding the average trade estimate, according to data released by the National Oilseed Processors Association (NOPA) on Tuesday October 15.
5 hours ago | Anna Platonova
Ukrainian sunseed crushers are planning to increase the processing of other oilseeds, given the shortage of sunflower and its higher prices, which threatens to leave the country’s oilseed processing capacity underutilized, market participants said at the conference Black Sea Oil Trade 2024 in Bucharest on Tuesday October 15.
6 hours ago | Jocelyn Garcia
Export inspections of US corn decreased by 55% to 430,323 tonnes during the week to October 10, from 947,963 tonnes during the previous week, according to USDA data released on Tuesday October 15.
6 hours ago | Mark Shenk
Export inspections of US wheat rose by 2.1% to 371,004 tonnes during the week to Thursday October 10, from 363,460 tonnes the previous week, according to USDA data released on Tuesday October 15.
7 hours ago | Victor Gusmao
Export inspections of US soybeans were down 3% to 1.58 million tonnes in the week ended Thursday October 10, from the 1.63 million tonnes recorded a week earlier, USDA data showed on Tuesday October 15.
7 hours ago | Yana Sukharska
Weekly soybean imports into the EU totaled 174,812 tonnes in the week to Sunday October 13, according to initial data from the European Commission released on Tuesday October 15.
7 hours ago | Marcela Caetano
Brazilian food agency Conab has slightly reduced its estimate for the country's soybean crop in 2024/25 to 166.05 million tonnes from the 166.3 million tonnes projected in September, and corn output was adjusted to 119.7 million tonnes from the previous 119.8 million tonnes forecast, according to a report on Tuesday October 15.