India's peanut-in-shell MSP for the 2016/17 season was fixed at $629/MT in June 2016. However, GOI’s first advanced estimates of September 2016 have projected a 21.68 percent increase in kharif production versus last year. With a higher available supply now in certain areas, many of the market prices have dropped below that MSP. India’s Unsteady Sugar Situation The sugar season starts next week, and sugarcane growers have demanded a higher price for their production. The Fair Remunerative Price (FRP) was left unchanged for 2016/17 at $34.32/MT for recovery of 9.5 percent. However, the sugar mills would pay a small premium if the recovery was higher. The FRP was fixed when the price of sugar was still good and the sector was under a...
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...
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...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Bangladesh has asked the USA for technical assistance to improve grain storage and strengthen quality testing of imported grains. Of major importance to Bangladesh is the “technology to improve grain preservation and grain s...
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