While the EU was able to mostly deal with its huge wheat supplies in 2014/15 through large increases in feed use and exports, it will have greater difficulty finding homes for its big 2015/16 crop in the context of the third consecutive year of record-large global wheat production.The world is awash in wheat, to use the old cliché, and the EU has done its part. Its 2015/16 wheat production is estimated at 155.6 MMT, barely less than last year’s record 156.5 MMT. During 2014/15, the EU was able to mostly deal with its huge crop through large increases of 3.4 MMT in feed use and 5.5 MMT in exports compared with 2013/14. Even so, ending 2014/15 wheat stocks were 13.1 MMT, a 3.4 MMT jump over the prior year.In the context of the third consecuti...
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...
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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