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1 hour ago | Jocelyn Garcia
The USDA’s monthly supply and demand update will include the first 2024/25 new crop projections of the year, and analysts polled by Fastmarkets expected the agency’s report to reflect higher US corn ending stocks but lower US production and global stocks compared with the 2023/24 old crop.
53 minutes ago
The USDA's influential World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report update for May will include the first projections for the 2024-25 crop year, with analysts polled by Fastmarkets projecting that US ending stocks will climb while global stocks will dip slightly.
2 hours ago | Eduardo Tinti
Global and US soybean ending stocks are expected to bounce back considerably in the 2024/25 marketing year, underpinned by higher production in the US and Brazil, a Fastmarkets poll with seven traders and analysts showed on Wednesday May 8.
46 minutes ago | Sam Balf
Euronext’s commitment of traders report for the week to Friday May 3 showed that investors continued to cut their short positions in wheat futures, further growing the contract’s net long position on the exchange.
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22 hours ago
US and European wheat futures retreated from the highest levels of the year on Tuesday May 7, with prices coming against key resistance levels and conditions in US winter wheat growing areas improving.
Corn Commentary
23 hours ago
US corn futures moved lower on Tuesday May 7 due to profit taking, with losses capped by US planting delays.
Soybean Commentary
22 hours ago
Soybean front-month futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) were mostly steady on Tuesday May 7 amid technical pressure, while new crop futures contract rose on slower than expected US planting progress.
Vegoils Commentary
22 hours ago
Malaysian crude palm oil (CPO) futures rose on Tuesday May 7, tracking similar movements in other vegetable oil futures.

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Editor's Pick
7 May 2024 | Mark Shenk
Sentiment among US agricultural producers tumbled in April, with monitors of both longer-term and short-term conditions sharply lower, CME Group and Purdue University’s Ag Economy Barometer survey showed Tuesday May 7.
6 May 2024 | Marcela Caetano
Soybean sales in the domestic market in Argentina totaled 13.6 million tonnes on April 24, 27% of the 50 million tonne projected production for 2023/24, while the average for the first month of the crop year was 34% in the past five years, the Rosario Grain Exchange (BCR) said in a report late on Friday May 3.
3 May 2024 | Mark Shenk
Managed money investors in the US agricultural sector slashed short positions in corn and wheat contracts in the week to Tuesday April 30, helping slash the net short in the markets to multi-month lows, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed late on Friday May 3.
29 Apr 2024 | Victor Gusmao
The Argentine Oilseed Crushers Union (SOEA) announced a strike to start on Monday April 29 for an indeterminate period, with multiple entities in the country mobilizing against the government’s proposed economic law reforms.
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3 May 2024 | Marcela Caetano
Losses in soybean production in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul are expected to total 1 million-2 million tonnes, sources told Fastmarkets; the state has been facing damages due to floods and landslides since April 29 and will continue to receive large volumes of rain in the next few days.
3 May 2024 | Marcela Caetano
The late corn harvest is expected to begin in mid-May, two months earlier than usual, in Argentina due to leafhopper-related diseases. As soon as the early corn harvest is completed, the late corn harvest will follow immediately, the Rosario Grains Exchange (BCR) said late on Thursday May 2.
2 May 2024 | Marcela Caetano
The US Department of Agriculture's attaché in Argentina kept its 2023/24 soybean output estimate unchanged at 49.5 million tonnes while projecting a 51 million tonnes production in 2024/25.
2 May 2024 | Regina Koh
Freight rates for vessels carrying palm oil from Southeast Asia to key destinations in the region were steady from the previous week, supported by a healthy volume of inquiries.
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3 minutes ago | Eoin Hughes
Freight rates rebounded in the week to Wednesday May 8 with stronger demand from cargo in South America and support from stronger Capesizes.
59 minutes ago | Misha Simonovska
US weekly ethanol production fell by 22,000 barrels per day to 965,000 barrels per day in the week to Friday May 3, according...
3 hours ago | Sharon Levrez
The Russian government has further reduced the export tax on wheat for the week of May 15-21, while setting the tax on corn and barley at zero, according to a note from country’s agriculture ministry on Wednesday May 8.
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No purchases were made in China’s latest auction for imported soybeans, which concluded Wednesday May 8, trade sources told Fastmarkets.
6 hours ago | Min Jie Yaw
Freight rates for vessels carrying palm oil from Southeast Asia to key destinations in the region increased in the week to Wednesday May 8 from the previous week, driven by healthy demand for palm and limited tonnage.
8 hours ago | Regina Koh
Taiwanese feed production group MFIG concluded its buy tender for optional-origin corn on Wednesday May 8, purchasing around 65,000 tonnes of the grain from trading house Pan Ocean, market sources told Fastmarkets.
9 hours ago | Victor Gusmao
The Argentine Oilseed Crushers Union (SOEA) announced late on Tuesday May 7 that the syndicate will call their workers to join a general strike in the country, with the joining of the SOEA scheduled for Thursday May 9, according to a note published by the union.
9 hours ago | Regina Koh
China’s soybean crush level in the week ended Friday May 3 totaled 1.72 million tonnes, 200,000 tonnes lower from the week prior, figures from the China National Grain and Oil Information Centre (CNGOIC) showed.
12 hours ago | Leticia Pakulski
Brazil’s soybean harvest advanced by 3.8 percentage points in the week to Sunday May 5th, reaching 94.3% of the 45.2 million hectare projected area, the country’s food agency Conab said late on Monday May 6.