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31 Jan 2025
A cold snap is expected to sweep across parts of the US in the week beginning Thursday January 30, putting winter wheat at risk if protective snow cover remains thin.
30 Jan 2025 | Jocelyn Garcia
Argentina’s soybean planting is now complete following a 0.8 percentage point weekly advance in the week to Wednesday January 29, according to the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange (BAGE)'s weekly crop report update released on Thursday January 30.
30 Jan 2025 | Fastmarkets team
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30 Jan 2025 | Masha Belikova
The Russian agriculture ministry said that 82% of winter wheat crops are in “good” or “satisfactory” conditions during a meeting held on Wednesday January 29.
Market Commentary
Wheat Commentary
7 Feb 2025
US wheat futures declined on Friday February 7 as market participants focused on forecasts for snowfall in some of the country’s hard red winter (HRW) wheat growing areas next week, which would help protect the crops from frigid air moving down from Canada.
Corn Commentary
7 Feb 2025
Corn futures fell on Friday February 7, with lower futures in China and mixed cash trade adding to a subdued tone on the market.
Soybean Commentary
7 Feb 2025
Soybean futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange lost further momentum on Friday February 7 amid a mixed picture for downstream products, reducing weekly gains to less than 1%.
Vegoils Commentary
7 Feb 2025
Vegoil markets posted gains on Friday February 7 as crude palm oil (CPO) futures rose in Asia amid supply concerns, while soyoil prices extended the positive movement from the previous session on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
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Editor's Pick
10 Dec 2024 | Eduardo Tinti
Futures across the soy complex in Chicago reacted mildly to the USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report released late in the session on Tuesday December 10, with little changes to global balance sheets and an anticipated increase in US soyoil export figures.
10 Dec 2024 | Marcela Caetano
The US Department of Agriculture has kept its US soybean ending stocks estimate unchanged while increasing its global forecast, the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report showed on Tuesday December 10.
10 Dec 2024 | Mark Shenk
The US Department of Agriculture reduced its estimates for US wheat ending stocks for the 2024/25 marketing year, while bolstering export projections and slightly increasing its global stocks forecast.
10 Dec 2024 | Jocelyn Garcia
The USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report update released on Tuesday December 10 highlights key changes to the US corn outlook, including increased usage (ethanol production as well as food, seed and industrial use), higher exports and reduced ending stocks.
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3 Feb 2025 | Jocelyn Garcia
US agriculture faces a looming crisis with retaliatory tariffs likely to slash export revenues and disrupt global supply chains, sources told Fastmarkets in response to US President Donald Trump’s import tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China.
3 Feb 2025 | Jocelyn Garcia
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced during a morning conference on Monday February 3 that the US will pause for one month before going ahead to impose threatened tariffs on Mexican imports.
4 Feb 2025 | Taís Laporta
Brazil's soybean harvest reached 8% of the projected area of 47.4 million hectares in the week ended Sunday February 2, while the sowing of the second corn crop continued to advance slowly, according to national food agency Conab’s weekly crop progress report published late on Monday February 3.
5 Feb 2025 | Jenny Ma
Chinese market participants were indifferent to the 10% retaliatory tariff imposed by China on US agricultural machinery, sources told Fastmarkets.
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7 Feb 2025 | Mark Shenk
Speculators in the US corn market continued to reduce short positions while adding longs in the week to Tuesday February 4, sending the net long to the highest level since May 2022, while open interest in corn surged to its highest since March 2021, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) released late on Friday February 7 shows.
Rains in Argentina during the week to Friday February 7 brought relief to soybean crops suffering from dry and hot weather. Meanwhile, in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state, which has been facing the same weather conditions and where rains were not as intense, part of the crop already shows a “large reduction” of yield potential, according to local reports.
7 Feb 2025 | Fastmarkets team
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7 Feb 2025 | Sam Balf
Tunisia’s state grains agency Office des Céréales (ODC) is understood to have awarded its barley import tender to international trading company Viterra, market participants told Fastmarkets on Friday February 7.
7 Feb 2025 | Eoin Hughes
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) lowered its wheat and corn production estimates for the 2024/25 marketing year in its February agricultural market information system (AMIS) report.
7 Feb 2025 | Devora Nedyalkova
Russia has lowered its export duties on corn and raised the tariff for wheat and barley for February 12-18, the country’s agriculture ministry said on Friday February 7.
7 Feb 2025 | Fastmarkets team
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Australian wheat exports surged nearly fourfold in December, reaching 2.15 million tonnes, compared with 576,882 tonnes in November. This also represented a 56% increase from the 1.38 million tonnes exported in the same month of 2023, according to monthly data released on Friday February 7 by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
7 Feb 2025 | Eduardo Tinti
US and global soybean ending stocks are expected to fall in the USDA World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report due to be published on Tuesday February 11, a Fastmarkets poll with seven traders and analysts showed.