Russian Grain Markets: 10-16 April 2013 Grain Market Interventions The intervention fund put up 64,935 of grain for exchange trading on 10 April and 64,996 MT of grain on 16 April.Since the beginning of the public grain interventions in 2012, the State Intervention Fund has sold 2.823 MMT of grains for total amount of RUR 23.687 billion. Harvest Forecast Ivan Ushachev, vice president of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, last week predicted that Russia's total grain harvest in 2013 may reach 85-87 MMT (versus 70.9 MMT in 2012). Mr. Ushachev also estimates 2013 sunflower seed production to be 7.4 MMT (versus 8 MMT in 2012). Market Trends: 8-12 April 2013 GEOGRAPHICALLY: 3rd grade soft milling wheat prices continued to dec...
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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