Russian Grain Markets: 13-18 December 2012 Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up 64,990 MT of grains for exchange trading on 18 December 2012.As of 1 December 2012, total carryover stocks of grain in producing, storing and processing enterprises amounted to 29.7 MMT, down 12.6 MMT from the amount on the same date last year. Geographically:
3rd grade and 4th grade soft milling wheat prices continued to increase in the South and Siberia (+$1.5-4/MT), Black Soil (+$7/MT), Central (+$5-5.5/MT), and Ural and Volga Valley (+$10-11/MT). 5th grade feed wheat prices increased +$11/MT in Volga Valley, +$9/MT in Ural, +$4-5/MT in other regions and only +$3/MT in Siberia. Feed barley prices increased in the Central and South...
What You Need to Know Today: Cattle futures extended their sharp selloff Friday as weakening cash cattle prices, deteriorating feedlot profitability, and reduced packer demand continued to weigh on the market. The inability of futures to sustain a rally following last week's bullish Cattle on...
Key Takeaways: WPI’s new EU rapeseed crushing margin models point to weaker processing returns over the next four months due to higher rapeseed procurement costs and weaker product values. Statistical forecasts call for German crushing margins to decline from €181/MT to €...
Key Takeaways: The tariff burden rose sharply in 2025 and 2026: the effective rate on imports in HTS Chapters 1–24 increased from 1.53 percent in 2024 to 6.11 percent in 2025, before averaging 5.68 percent in January–August 2026. Headline rates tell only part of the story: exemptio...
