Grain Highlights

Ethanol Stocks In The USA Close To Their Record Level

Ethanol stocks in the USA grew to 23.257 mln barrels in the past week, which is 0.662 mln barrels more than the previous week and reached the second highest level in history. The information came from the Ministry of Energy of the USA.

News In Brief

Spring crop sowing in Russia has been completed on 0.824 mln hectares as of March 30, 2017 or 1.6% of the plan. 0.892 mln hectares of spring crops had been sowed as of the same date in 2016. Areas sowed with grains have reached 0.613 mln hectares now (2% and 6.35).

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On March 30, 2017 Tunisia will carry out an auction for the purchase of 100,000 tons of soft wheat and 75,000 tons of barley fodder of random origin to be delivered between May and July.

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The government of China has won at an auction 459,232 tons of wheat at 364.03 USD/ton. The volume offered at the auction was 2.6 mln tons.

News from Russia and Ukraine

According to information from APK - Inform, between March 18 and March 24, 0.43 mln tons of grains were exported from Ukrainian sea ports versus 1.16 mln tons a week earlier.