Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko announced the grain harvest forecast on 7 September 2015, which he noted will be 255 percent of domestic consumption. As a result, a substantial volume will be available for export. Russian Grain Markets Harvest Update Over 77.4 MMT of grain were harvested from 30.1 million hectares as of 7 September 2015 (64.1 percent of the target) compared with 80 MMT from 29.2 million hectares as of the same date a year ago. This specifically included 52 MMT of winter and spring wheat from18.3 million hectares (68.1 percent of the target) and 15.3 MMT of winter and spring barely from 6.5 million hectares (73.5 percent of the target). Additionally, 1.1 MMT of corn were harvested from 210,000...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
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