Russian Grain Markets: 6-12 March 2013 Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up 64,960 MT of grain for exchange trading on 6 March and 64,956 MT of grain on 12 March.Since the beginning of the public grain interventions in 2012, the State Intervention Fund has sold 2.251 MMT of grains for total amount of RUR 19.156 billion. Planting Season Farmers in the Southern and Northern-Caucasian regions have begun the planting season. As of 12 March, spring crops were planted on 175,400 hectares. The total target area is 50.9 million hectares, of which 30.3 million hectares will be planted to grain crops. Market Trends: 4-7 March 2013 During the week in review, grain prices continued to decrease. While milling wheat and corn pr...
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...
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