Bearing acreage for almonds this year is estimated at 1.07 million acres, up from 1.0 million acres last year. Production in 2017 was a record 2.25 billion pounds, an increase of 5 percent from the year before thanks to more acreage offsetting a slight [...]
As trade tension between the U.S. and China worsens, China seems to be finding different products to substitute for U.S. soybeans. Total imports of Canadian rapeseed meal during March were 107,719 metric tons (MT), 122 percent above the same month last year. Imports of [...]
Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s seminar and for your contribution to making it our best event yet! Special thanks to our amazing information team and to guest speakers Jeff Rasinski, Phil Plourd, Joe Gardella, and Susanna Jung. What, you couldn’t attend [...]
While protectionist headlines seem to crop up every day, Mexico and the EU have set a different tone as they moved forward with a trade agreement, or at least a preliminary version of one. Touted as an economic and political win for both sides, [...]
Miserable weather this spring in the Corn Belt has delayed early corn planting progress. As of Apr. 22, only 5 percent of the U.S. crop was planted compared to 15 percent last year and the five-year average of 14 percent. Iowa and Minnesota had [...]
European grind for Q1 2018 was 358,432 MT, up 1.5 percent from the previous quarter and 5.5 percent higher than Q1 2017 grind. Meanwhile, Q1 grind reported for Asian manufacturers was 190,244 MT, down 3.2 percent from Q4 2017’s volume but up an impressive [...]
The European Union banned imports from 20 Brazilian meat plants previously listed as approved suppliers. A European Commission statement reported the ban was prompted by “deficiencies detected in the Brazilian official control system.” The companies affected ship about a third of all meat exports, [...]
Brazil’s center-south crush reached 596.3 million metric tons (MMT) of cane from April 2017 through March 2018, down by nearly 2 percent from crush for its 2016/17 campaign. Usage of that cane for sugar manufacturing was slightly higher in the last season, 46.5 percent [...]
