Euronext’s commitment of traders report for the week to Friday February 28 showed a mixed sentiment in French milling wheat and corn futures on the exchange but a continued increase for rapeseed net long and short positions, according to data released on Wednesday March 5.

Fastmarkets commits to publishing daily the bids, offers, indicative levels or other cash trading indications on any basis and geography related to any vital markets with strong ties with Ukraine.

Ukraine's monthly exports of sunflower oil and sunflower meal fell to the lowest level since the beginning of the 2024/25 season in February, due to the shutdown of several plants caused by negative processing margins, while exports of soybean and soybean meal rose, according to customs statistics.

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The EU imported a total of 43,740 tonnes of soybeans in the week ended Sunday March 2, bringing the total imports for the marketing year to 9.01 million tonnes, a 9% increase compared with the previous year, according to preliminary data from the European Commission.

The imposition of 25% tariffs on Tuesday March 4 on a wide array of Canadian products, including canola seed, oil and meal, will have a devastating and widespread impact on the Canadian canola industry, according to the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) and the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA).

Ukrainian analysts predict that the rapeseed harvest will decrease by at least 7.7%, due to a reduction in the area devoted to winter rapeseed and a decrease in the harvested area caused by unfavorable weather conditions during the sowing and wintering period, although the yield may increase.

China’s soybean stocks fell to 4.57 million tonnes in the week to Friday February 28 on higher soybean crush volume and positive crush margins, according to data from the China National Grains and Oils Information Center (CNGOIC).

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced a €60 million ($65 million) loan to Ukraine’s Lan Oil to finance the country’s first private biofuels venture since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, according to a press release published on Wednesday June 12.

Singapore-based Wilmar International posted its financial results for the first quarter on Monday April 29, with net profit at $302.9 million...

Wilmar International has confirmed one of its terminals was damaged in an "incident" and estimated that it will take up to six months to repair the facilities destroyed after a missile attack on the Ukrainian port of Pivdenny...

Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a document that confirms his government has officially seized the assets of Russia-based company Agroterra, wresting control from the company's owner, US-headquartered investment company NCH Capital.

The Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) reported a $60 million loss for 2023 amid the deconsolidation of its Russian business...

Singapore-based Asian agribusiness giant Wilmar International (Wilmar) saw an increase in its palm fresh fruit bunch (FFB) production in the second half of its 2023 financial year...

China's average hog price dropped by 1.4% and 36.6% on the week and year last week, respectively...

China’s weekly soybean crush level dropped by almost 4% from the previous week to 1.7 million mt last week as many crushers continued to suspend operations due to a lack of soybeans...

The imposition of 25% tariffs on Tuesday March 4 on a wide array of Canadian products, including canola seed, oil and meal, will have a devastating and widespread impact on the Canadian canola industry, according to the Canola Council of Canada (CCC) and the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA).

Russia’s export duty on sunflower oil reached another all-time high for February, increasing by 11.6% from January, while the export duty on sunflower meal decreased by 18% month on month, according to an update from the country’s Ministry of Agriculture on Friday January 24.

The Turkish government is to further reduce import duties on sunflower seeds from the start of 2025 to bolster support local farmers, according to an announcement in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Turkey.

The Ukrainian government has released the minimum export prices for a list of agricultural goods in an official document from the country’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food seen by Fastmarkets on Monday November 11.

Russia’s sunflower oil export duty has risen above zero for the first time in 18 months, while the sunflower meal export duty has reached its highest since April 2024, according to an update from the country’s Agriculture Ministry on Friday October 25.

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India is targeting to boost its domestic edible oil production to 25.45 million tonnes by 2030/31, following the approval of the National Mission on Edible Oils and Oilseeds (NMEO-Oilseeds), the government said in a statement issued in the late evening on Thursday October 3.

Russia’s sunflower meal export duty has risen to another record high for the period since April this year, but sunflower oil export duty will remain at nil in October of the 2024/25 season, which started on September 1, according to an update from the country’s Agriculture Ministry on Wednesday September 25.