In India, Business Standard reported that India has harvested 38% of the total wheat area of an estimated 32 million hectare so far in the ongoing 2025-26 marketing season, according to the country’s Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Wheat “harvesting conditions are better” in key growing states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, […]
In Illinois, Reuters reported that U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with China comes at a bad time for sorghum growers in the country. The report noted that China accounted for nearly 90% of U.S. sorghum exports last year. Those purchases have largely ground to a halt, due to the tariffs war between the two […]
In Brazil, Noticias Agricolas reported that Brazil’s 2025 soybean crop was estimated at a record 169.6 million tons, but with a slight reduction of 0.8% in the forecast compared to the March figure, according to a monthly update from the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (Abiove). Production in 2025, with the harvest almost complete, […]
In Brazil, Canal Rural reported that Brazil’s National Supply Company (Conab) stated that the 2024/25 soybean harvest in Brazil reached 88.3% of the cultivated area, an increase of 3 percentage points compared to the previous week. There was an advance of 5.2 percentage points in relation to the same moment of the last harvest, when […]
In Argentina, Bichos de Campo reported that the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange confirmed its projected soybean harvest of 48.6 million tons. This follows the improvement in the second-season soybean crop, following weather events that called into question the crop’s condition in several regions, In the last week, the area of Argentine soybeans still standing in […]
In Missouri, World Grain reported that global grains production in the 2025-26 marketing year is forecast at a record 2.373 billion tons, according to the International Grains Council (IGC). In its April Grain Market Report, the IGC revised its corn output projection to a record 1.274 billion tons, while projections for wheat and rice remained […]
In Argentina, Buenos Aires Times reported that Argentine President Javier Milei encouraged farmers to seize the moment and sell their soybeans now after he eased currency controls, which weakened the peso by about 12% on official markets. In addition to letting the peso float, Milei has also trimmed export tariffs for harvest season only. For […]
In Missouri, World Grain reported that Egypt, the Middle East and North Africa’s largest importer and consumer of soybeans, is forecast to import 4.2 million tons of the oilseed in marketing year 2025-26, up 5% from the previous year, according to a report from the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture. […]
In France, Lhyfe reported announced that the French Prime Minister has officially confirmed, by signature, a $169 million grant for the firm’s future green hydrogen production plant located near the Grand Canal of Le Havre. The facility is expected to reach a capacity of up to 34 tons per day. The project was selected in […]
In Indonesia, PT HDF Energy Indonesia – a subsidiary of HDF Energy – has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Transportation (MoT), state-owned electric utility PT PLN (Persero) and ferry operator PT ASDP Indonesia Ferry (Persero). The agreement outlines a joint study to decarbonize Indonesia’s maritime sector using locally produced green […]
