Candy corn harvest update
Tonight’s candy corn harvest is expected to progress smoothly, under a concerted effort to get the crop out of the bowl and into the [...]
Rains slow Brazil center-south crush, prices support ethanol over sugar
From April through mid-October, Brazilian center-south cane crush reached 384 million metric tons (MMT), down 3.5 percent YOY. Despite this, production of cane ethanol [...]
Apple juice imports rose ahead of tariff
The 2018/19 marketing year started on a good note for apple juice imports. The U.S. took in 48.9 million single-strength-equivalent (SSE) gallons, up 74 [...]
Not enough demand for a large soybean crop in 2018/19
USDA is currently projecting record soybean ending stocks of 885 million bushels. However, this number could be underestimated without China’s demand. The current projection [...]
Mexican sugar supply & demand, plus price update
CNDSCA reported 2017/18 production at 6.010 MMT, up 1 percent YOY, and demand (including exports) at 5.750 MMT, down 5 percent YOY. Thanks to [...]
Weak palm oil fundamentals
Palm oil production during September increased 14.4 percent compared to the month prior to 1.85 million metric tons (MMT). This was the highest production [...]
Sharp drop in weekly corn export sales
Net corn export sales for the week of Oct. 11 were just 382,55 MT, down from over 1.0 MMT the week before; even accounting [...]
Sugar tax roundup
After backing California into setting a ban on local sugar taxes by threatening to bring forward an initiative to ban most local taxes, opponents [...]