- FAS USDA expects the sunseed produciton in Russia to reach 16.5 million tons in 2021/22, which is 24% more than in 2020 and will be a new record for the country. Russian analysts expect the sunseed production to range within 15.5 - 16 million tons given the drought in the country.

- SovEcon has lowered its forecast for the Russian wheat production in 2021 by 2.3 million tons to 82.3 million tons. The forecast for the barley production remained unchanged at 18 million tons and the estimate for the corn production has been raised to 15.9 million tons from a previous estimate of 15.75 million tons.

- In 2020/21, 16.6 million tons of wheat were exported from Ukraine. The largest buyers were Indonesia with 2.6 million tons, Egypt with 2.5 million tons and Pakistan with 1.4 million tons.

- As of 01.07.2021, grain stocks in Kazakhstan were 4.01 million tons compared to 5.39 million tons a month earlier, including wheat stocks of 3.3 million tons.

- According to the July forecast of France Agrimer, the barley production in France will reach 11.287 million tons in 2021, which is 8.4% more than last year. Barley exports will reach 5.817 million tons (+3.3%).

- According to the July forecast of France Agrimer, the soft wheat production in France will reach 37,097 million tons in 2021, which is 27.1% more than in 2020. Exports will reach 17,924 million tons (+31.7%).

- Yesterday, commodity funds in Chicago were net buyers of 13,000 contracts of corn, 11,000 contracts of soybeans and 14,500 contracts of wheat.

- In June, China imported 10.72 million tons of soybeans, which is 11.6% more than in May and 3.9% less than the record in June 2020. The indicator is the third highest result in history for this month of the year. In the second half of 2021, China's soybean imports are expected to decline due to declining processors' profitability.

- In their July report, USDA analysts raised their forecast for the world's sunseed production in 2021 by 2.07 million tons to 56.99 million tons compared to 54.92 million tons in 2020.

- A group of private importers from the Philippines have refused to buy 200,000 tons of milling and feed wheat with delivery within September - November due to high prices.

- In June, imports of vegetable oils in India reached 996,000 tons compared to 1.25 million tons in May and 1.2 million tons in June 2020. Sunseed oil imports were 175,700 tons, including 117,700 tons from Ukraine, 32,000 tons from Russia and 32,000 tons from Argentina .

- On 13.07.2021, Turkey bought 395,000 tons of milling wheat of any origin and delivery within August 16-30.