Last week, net soybean export sales were over 2.1 MMT, a show of strength after three weeks that were a bit slow in light of USDA’s expectation of 61.2 MMT (2.250 billion bushels) of exports this season. Weekly exports were 2.5 MMT, putting cumulative [...]
U.S. imports of Mexican sugar are now estimated near 1.09 million metric tons (MMT) for 2016/17, down around 115,000 metric tons (MT) from the previous season, a 9-percent-plus decline. If realized, this import figure for 2016/17 would represent a fall of more than 43 [...]
Harvest of the main cocoa crop is underway for world’s top origins, Ivory Coast and Ghana. The market will be watching closely, but the size of the overall crop is not now in question, with a surplus all but guaranteed. But what of demand? [...]
The U.S. had 73.5 million head of hogs and pigs as of Sep. 1, up 2 percent from a year ago. U.S. pork production this year is forecast to be about 5 percent higher than in 2016 to cover the expected 2 percent increase [...]
