On September 22-29, CBOT corn prices declined by 2.2%. Last week heavy rains delayed corn harvesting in the USA. Farmers threshed corn from 15% of the intended area (16% in 2015), which was 4% below the five-year average. However, favorable weather conditions established in many producing regions, which allowed increasing the harvesting pace, and pressured…
Agrarians of Belarus completed the mass planting campaign of winter grain crops, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Belarus declared. Thus, the general planted areas under winter grains in the country totaled 1.3 million ha (100.5% of the plan). In particular, Mogilev region planted winter crops throughout 113% of the plan, Minsk region –…
Ukraine, as well as the whole world, has faced unprecedented economic challenges. Unfortunately, the global economy still feels the effect of 2008 economic crisis, which means new challenges, both for domestic agricultural sector, and for oil and fat business in particular. It’s no secret that Ukraine mainly operates in raw materials markets. A 50% and…
Rye production is steadily declining in Ukraine. If earlier Ukraine was an exporter of rye, before 2014 Ukrainian rye harvest was just enough for domestic consumption only. Over the last two seasons a new trend has emerged – both rye and rye flour imports are growing. The need to import one of Ukrainian traditional grain…
As of October 4, Ukrainian agrarians harvested 45.08 million tons of grains throughout the areas of 11.149 million ha, or 78% of the plan. The average yield totaled 4.04 ton/ha, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. At the same time, on the same date last year the production volumes reached 43.5…
As of October 3, all regions of Ukraine planted winter rapeseed throughout the areas of 717.5 thousand ha, or 99% of the plan, up by 145 thousand ha YoY, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared. Odessa, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil and Lviv regions showed the largest planted area under winter rapeseed. (APK-Inform/Business…
Asket Shipping company, which is a key cargo shipper of grains in the seaport of Berdyansk, plans to participate in investment project on construction of modern port silo. The company is at the first stage of this project. It plans to construct 8 grain silos with the total storage capacity of 67.5 KMT. Now, except…