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South Africa’s farmers are at the back end of harvesting what is widely expected to be a record corn crop. This is a welcome boost to domestic inventories and the exportable surplus, with major Asian…

Ukraine has intensified its drone attacks on Russian vessels transiting the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, resulting in a significant decline in Moscow’s shadow fleet shipping activity in the respective sea zones, and…

As the 2026 soybean harvest winds down in Argentina, focus now turns to the nation’s record corn crop, where the harvest has just crept past the halfway mark, as well as completion of the 2026/27…

Planting progress was slower than normal across much of the Canadian Prairies this season but was largely completed by the end of May, while Central Canadian grain farmers completed the majority of their campaign by…

The total area planted to wheat across the Russian Federation for the 2026 harvest is set to be the smallest in 12 years, with the spring wheat area dramatically lower as a result of persistently…

Ukraine’s winter crop harvest campaign has officially begun, with farmers in the south of the country threshing early planted barley and pea crops last week. While field survey results provide grounds for an optimistic production…