Traders are not glad with prices in the new season. World grain production continues to set new records, and puts pressure on prices. CBOT wheat futures fell to a ten-year low affecting the Black Sea export prices. Compared with early September 2015, grain prices lost no less than $10/MT. Given that Ukraine exports more than…
According to official statistics, in July Ukrainian barley exports rose by 19% YoY. In July Ukraine exported about 1011.6 KMT against 848 KMT in July 2015. More than half of the exported barley was shipped to Saudi Arabia. Large share of barley was exported to Libya (148.3 KMT) and China (90.2 KMT). Peculiar in the…
In July Ukraine produced 9.7 KMT of mayonnaise against 8.3 KMT in June of the current year and 9.6 KMT in July 2015. In January-July total production equals 69.2 KMT, which is slightly lower than over the same period of 2015, namely by 0.6 KMT or less than 1%. Considering the tendency of decreasing mayonnaise…
Harvesting of sunflower and soybean has started in the southern regions of the Russian Federation and starting prices for raw materials of the new crop were announced in these regions. During last week Russian market of sunflower oil was characterized by a minimum volume of sales and a further decrease in producer prices. With increase…
Russia’s broiler meat production is expected to grow slightly in 2017, by 0.5% to 3.77 million metric tons (MMT, ready-to-cook weight), according to the latest report from the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). After two decades of accelerated growth, the industrial production of chicken meat has reached the capacity needed to satisfy…
Small-sized farm “Domashenkov A.G.” launched the first rapeseed crushing plant in Nizhegorodsk region with the project capacity of 12 KMT of rapeseed per day. Out of every MT of raw material the farmers plan to obtain 400 kg of vegoil and 600 kg of cake. According to Russian AgMin, thanks to the participation of farmers…
As of September 1, Russian agrarians continued harvesting grains and pulses. Agrarians harvested grain crops throughout the general areas of 32.6 million ha (on the same date in 2015 – 27.1 million ha), or 68.9% of the planned areas (47.3 million ha). The produced volumes reached 92.2 million tons of grains, with the average yield…