Grains And Oilseeds News In Brief

Spring crops sowing in Bulgaria is running much faster than last year according to information from the country's Ministry of Agriculture. As of 30.03.2017, 23,500 hectares have been sowed with spring barley (+61% versus last year), 0.1433 mln hectares of corn (+1522%) and 0.1103 mln hectares of sunflower (+242%).

On 5.04.2017 Japan cancelled an auction for the purchase of 120,000 tons of wheat fodder and 200,000 tons of barley fodder.

Iraq has cancelled an auction for the purchase of at least 50,000 tons of hard wheat from Australia, the USA and Canada.

34.127 mln tons of grains were exported from Ukraine between the start of the season and April 5, 2017.

Export included 14.69 mln tons of wheat, 4.9 mln tons of barley and 14.34 mln tons of corn. 297,500 tons of flour were exported, too. Over the whole 2015 – 2016 MY, 39.487 mln tons of grains were exported from the country, which is 13.5% more than 2014 – 2015. Over the whole 2016 – 2017 MY 40 mln tons of grains will be exported from Ukraine.