Contracts for the purchase of 25 palm oil containers have been concluded as well for shipment in the last quarter of 2017. Demand for palm oil increases as the price difference increases between it and soybean oil. Large consumers start replenishing palm oil stocks. Over the past two weeks, the price of palm oil on the Kuala Lumpur commodity market has declined under the influence of rising production, and soybean oil has stabilized due to the declining production prospects considering the worsening natural conditions in the United States.

In Kazakhstan, 533,700 tonnes of grain, new crop, are harvested at an average yield of 1.82 mt / ha. A year earlier the harvested production was 643,600 tonnes. Areas under wheat cultivation in Kazakhstan in 2017 are 12 million hectares.

The rapeseed harvest in Belarus in the current year will reach 700,000 tonnes. Areas under rapeseed cultivation reach 274,200 hectares, which is 45% more than in 2016. As of July 25, 2017 131,000 hectares were harvested, 269,600 tonnes of rapeseed were harvested at an average yield of 2.06 mt / ha, which is 0.37 mt / ha more than in 2016.

From the beginning of 2017 – 2018 until July 26, 2017. Ukraine exported 1.793 million tonnes of grain, incl. 515,000 tonnes of wheat, 514,000 tonnes of barley and 763,000 tonnes of corn.

According to the latest CES forecast, in 2017 - 2018, in South Africa, 15,969 million tonnes of corn will be produced given a previous forecast of 15.77 million tonnes. The current record was set in 1981 - 14,656 million tonnes. In the current year, the crop of yellow corn will be 9.507 million tonnes and of white corn 6.462 million tonnes.