As lifestyles and diets evolved, especially in developing nations, death rates due to noncommunicable diseases (NCD) such as diabetes and heart disease have continued to rise. These countries have explored a variety of policies to reduce the incidence of NCDs and increase life expectancies. [...]
The 2022/23 U.S. soybean oil export season has seen its slowest start to a marketing year since FAS began reporting weekly progress in 1990. Outstanding sales were a mere 27,900 MT (61.5 million pounds) as of Oct. 20, while cumulative shipments totaled 3,989 MT [...]
U.S. trade partners appear to be holding off buying 2022/23 corn: Sales were a mere 182,339 MT during the week of Sep. 15 (7.2 million bushels), well below average for the week. Outstanding sales to Japan were 854,000 MT as of Sep. 15, compared [...]
Having passed the official start of spring, natural gas stocks in underground storage across the U.S. finally posted their first gain since last fall in Thursday’s EIA report. Nationwide stocks showed a 26 billion cubic feet (Bcf) bump over last week, with six out [...]
For the week ending Feb. 10, U.S. net weekly export sales were 820,041 MT (32.3 million bushels), down about 18 percent YOY. Outstanding sales were just under 24.2 MMT (952.7 million bushels), down 32 percent YOY. Top buyers for the week included Japan (600,200 [...]
HFCS exports picked up a bit in January, totaling 77,914 metric tons, dry basis: 72,688 MT of HFCS-55 and 5,225 MT of HFCS-42. HFCS-55 shipments were up 16 percent from December and up 13 percent year over year, while HFCS-42 exports were down 9 [...]
For the second consecutive December, USDA made no changes to the domestic corn balance sheet. Despite the industry expecting slightly lower 2020/21 ending stocks, the forecast remained at a seven-year low of 1.702 billion bushels. Globally, USDA lowered its 2020/21 world corn production forecast [...]
This week, we move out of the dog days of summer, although cooling trends may be hard to spot in the western half of the country. Let’s just imagine some invigorating chill in the air and maple syrup-scented fall root dishes…cookies would be good, too. [...]
