For the second year in a row, California almond growers are expected to set a production record. Currently, there are nearly 1.2 million bearing almond acres in California, with yield expected to be 2,140 pounds per acre. Together, these factors lead USDA to estimate [...]
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) reported that rain totals during the week ending May 15 were down 33 percent from average for all of India. Looking at some cane growing regions, rainfall in northwest, central, and south India was down 26 percent, 73 percent, [...]
Despite low, stable pricing for pineapple juice concentrate, U.S. imports remain weak overall, with January-March 2019 imports down 9 percent from Q1 2018. Q1 imports from our top three origins (Thailand, the Philippines, and Costa Rica) accounted for over 80 percent of total Q1 [...]
Ghana saw a welcome increase in precipitation in the last ten days, mostly located in the coastal south and the northern regions, sprinkled elsewhere in the center of the country. Ivory Coast, however, has only seen a smattering of above-average rains, with most of [...]
Increasing tension over trade in the first half of May led dairy manufacturers to begin selling off inventories. Many cooperatives had been building inventories of various products in anticipation that a trade deal between the U.S. and China was close, but that anticipation has given way to concern as import duties of up to 25 percent remain in place on various [...]
U.S. honey production in 2018 was 2 percent higher YOY, at 152.4 million pounds. North Dakota farmers saw the greatest state-by-state production at a sizable 38.2 million pounds, with Montana and California rounding out the top three at 14.4 and 13.7 million pounds, respectively. North Dakota [...]
For the first month of the April-March 2019/20 center-south sugarcane campaign, crush is reported at 45 MMT of cane. The ethanol share of cane use is 71.4 percent, up from 65.9 percent in April 2018. Thanks to that low sugar share of 28.6 percent [...]
NOPA members crushed almost 160.0 million bushels of soybeans last month, down about 1 percent from April 2018. Some in the industry expected crush to surpass 161.6 million bushels and break last year’s record for the month, and while that didn’t happen, this season’s [...]
