Taiwan’s Flour Milling Association (FMA) has returned to the market with a fresh tender for 100,000 tonnes of US-origin milling wheat, sources told Fastmarkets Monday March 24.

Investors in the US corn and soybean markets amassed short positions while trimming longs in the week to Tuesday March 18, helping trim the corn net-long to its lowest level in more than three months; meanwhile the soybean net-short rose, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed late on Friday March 21.

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The Russian government reduced the grain export taxes again for the week from March 26 to April 1, the official note from the agriculture ministry showed on Friday March 21.

The state-funded Turkish Grain Board (TMO) has issued new export tender for the sale of durum wheat, according to documents seen by Fastmarkets on Friday March 21.

The European Commission is considering delaying a first set of countermeasures to US tariffs on aluminium and steel until mid-April, EU trade chief Maroš Šefcovic said on Thursday March 20.

Russia’s wheat exports from Black Sea ports totaled 394,518 tonnes in the week ended Thursday March 20, according to Fastmarkets analytics data published on Friday March 21.

Agricultural commodities giant Bunge Ltd reported its third-quarter financial results on Wednesday October 30, reflecting lower earnings year over year in the context of a tight global margin environment.

Traders in agricultural derivative instruments will have access to a raft of new “spread” futures contracts that could unlock new trading opportunities as two of the world’s biggest exchanges announced new products on Wednesday August 28.

The “Brooklyn Kyiv” grain terminal at Odesa port in southern Ukraine was damaged by a Russian missile attack late on Wednesday August 14, Louis Dreyfus Co (LDC) told Fastmarkets on Thursday.

Singapore-based Wilmar International posted its financial results for the first quarter on Monday April 29, with net profit at $302.9 million...

Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a document that confirms his government has officially seized the assets of Russia-based company Agroterra, wresting control from the company's owner, US-headquartered investment company NCH Capital.

Singapore-based Asian agribusiness giant Wilmar International (Wilmar) saw an increase in its palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB) production in the second half of its 2023 financial year...

The agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has seen its share prices tumble after it said it had placed its Chief Financial...

Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC)'s net sales for the first half of the year fell by 14.8% to $25.8 billion from $30.3 billion during the same...

The European Commission is considering delaying a first set of countermeasures to US tariffs on aluminium and steel until mid-April, EU trade chief Maroš Šefcovic said on Thursday March 20.

The Turkish government has announced a corn import allowance of 1 million tonnes until June 30, along with relaxing restrictions on wheat imports, Fastmarkets understands.

The European Commission has announced countermeasures affecting a broad range of agricultural and industrial goods following the reintroduction and expansion of US tariffs on steel and aluminium from the European Union that came into force on Wednesday March 12.

The imposition of 25% tariffs on Tuesday March 4 on a wide array of Canadian products, including canola seed, oil and meal, will have a devastating and widespread impact on the Canadian canola industry, according to the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) and the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA).

China has announced additional tariffs of up to 15% on imports of US goods from March 10 with the new measures covering largely agricultural products, alongside restricted exports to 15 US companies, according to a notice posted by the country’s Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday March 4.

Newly appointment US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said that reducing the country’s $45.5 billion agriculture trade deficit would be a major focus during her tenure, in remarks to the US Department of Agriculture’s Annual Agricultural Outlook Forum on Friday February 28.

The Russian government has allocated 8.59 million tonnes of the 10.6 million tonnes wheat export quota for February 15-June 30 period, with Grains Gates taking the lion’s share, according to a document released by the agriculture ministry late on Friday February 7.

Russia has introduced duty-free quotas for exports of grain, vegoil and meal from the Ukrainian occupied territories - or so called “new territories” - including the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, according to an official note on the government’s telegram channel.