22.9 mln tons of grain were exported from Canada during the first 28 weeks of the season which started on August 1, 2017. This is 2% less than the corresponding period of the previous year, CGC reported.
Commodity Weather Group analysers predict that the unususally warm wether in USA's wheat belt will bring crops out of their hibernation within the next 10 days.
A Reuters research based on forecasts made by 18 analysis agencies corn production in Brazil will be 89.6 mln tons in 2016 - 2017, which is 34.7% more than the previous season when the yield was severely damaged by drought.
Grain stocks in Russia were 35.247 mln tons on February 17, 2017, which was 11.3% more than the February 1, 2017 amount or +3.587 mln tons, Rossat reported.
On 17.02.2017 Egypt bought 360,000 tons of Russian, Ukrainian and Romanian wheat to be delivered between March 16 and March 26 at FOB 195.0 – 197.0 USD/ton.