Market Sees Less Wheat Substituting for Corn Most Chinese feed plants recently have been decreasing wheat rations in feed because of wheat prices being increasingly higher than corn prices in the market. By the end of February, feed plants in southern China have lowered the wheat ration in feed to less than 10 percent from 20-30 percent last December. Additionally, with new corn put on the market since last October, most feed plants in northern China have stopped purchasing wheat in recent months.The wheat price is expected to be weak in March. In addition to fewer feed plants substituting wheat for corn, flour demand has been low after the Chinese New Year. In some regions, wheat purchasing price by flour plants dropped nearly $6.35/MT...
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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