According to a forecast by Rusagrotrans, the grain production in Russia will be 153 million tons in 2022 (+17.5 compared to the record from 2017), including a record corn production of 16 million tons, a record wheat production of 100 million tons and a barley production of 23.1 million tons.
According to Anec's forecast, the export of corn from Brazil in September will be 7.618 million tons (-0.2 compared to the previous estimate and 6.9 million tons in August and 2.5 million tons in September 2021).
In August, China imported 1.8 million tons of corn (-44% compared to August 2021), 530,000 tons of wheat (-25%), 250,000 tons of barley (-64%) and 670,000 tons of sorghum (-18%).
In the past two weeks, Chinese traders have bought about 30 carloads of soybeans from Argentina. Argentinian soybean prices are very competitive and demand from China is gradually increasing.
Over the period of 01.07 - 14.09.2022, 5,805 million tons of grain were exported from Ukraine (10,926 a year earlier), including 1,508 million tons in September (2,301 a year earlier).
