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Grains
  • February 4, 2025

EU Grains Rally After US Tariff Threats

Insight Focus Corn fell in Chicago, while wheat rose due to winterkill...

Sugar
  • February 3, 2025

Daily Market Price Updates and Commentary 3rd February 2025

The new week got underway positively with March’25 making an ope...

Fertiliser
Sugar
  • February 3, 2025

Sugar Futures and Market Data: 3rd February 2025

Insight Focus Raw sugar futures continued trading above 19c/lb over th...

Sugar
  • January 31, 2025

Daily Market Price Updates and Commentary 31st January 2025

Starting the day at unchanged there was very little interest from eith...

Sugar
  • January 29, 2025

Daily Market Price Updates and Commentary 29th January 2025

The market was back in to attack mode as we opened with the early stag...

Food and Ingredients
  • January 29, 2025

Mercosur Advances in Free Trade Negotiations with the UAE

Insight Focus Negotiation of the trade deal began last year and has be...

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Food Security
  • January 27, 2025

Urea Continues Rise Ahead of India Tender Pricing

Insight Focus Urea prices continue to rise ahead of price discovery on...

Logistics Disruptions
  • January 8, 2025

5 Factors that Shaped Shipping in 2024… and Beyond

Insight Focus The container shipping industry experienced significant ...

Consumption
  • January 6, 2025

How the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement Will Impact Brazil

Insight Focus In early December, Mercosur and the EU signed an importa...

Sustainability
  • January 6, 2025

What is the Biggest PET Legislation to Look Out For in 2025?

Insight Focus Key PET and packaging legislations show no sign of slowi...

Inflation
  • December 19, 2024

Trump Proposes Tariffs on Mexican Sugar Imports

Insight Focus President-elect Trump has proposed tariffs on Mexican go...

Climate Control
  • November 12, 2024

UN Climate Summit Faces Trump Threat, Finance Questions

Insight Focus Nations are set to discuss raising “trillions” to fu...

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Sugar

Daily Market Price Updates and Commentary 3rd February 2025

  • February 3, 2025

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Sugar

Sugar Futures and Market Data: 3rd February 2025

  • February 3, 2025

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Ethanol

CS Brazil: Sugar or Ethanol? 28th January 2025

  • January 29, 2025

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Sugar

India: Sugar vs Ethanol? 22nd January 2025

  • January 21, 2025

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Grains Sugar
  • July 21, 2022

Seeking More Than ‘Plain’ Vanilla

Insight Focus Belize is home to great genetic diversity in vanilla Ide...

PET
  • July 21, 2022

Plastics and Sustainability Trends in July 2022

Insight Focus Household waste survey finds just 12% of plastic packagi...

Grains Sugar
  • July 21, 2022

Farmer Diaries (China): Coping with 40-Year High Rainfall

Insight Focus In this series, we’re following farmers around the wor...

Sugar
  • July 20, 2022

Daily Market Price Update and Commentary 20th July 2022

There was light buying on show though the early part of the day (hedge...

Sugar
  • July 20, 2022

How Does a Re-Export Sugar Refinery Work?

Re-export refiners play a crucial role in the global sugar market as i...

Food and Ingredients
  • July 20, 2022

Rising Meat Prices Will Gnaw Away Demand

Opinion Focus Meat has been viewed as a luxury, and in a recession, co...

Ethanol Sugar
  • July 19, 2022

Daily Market Price Update and Commentary 19th July 2022

Last night we alluded to the fatigue being seen in the market followin...

  • July 19, 2022

Dairy Online: Milk Powder Continues Its Free Fall

Insight Focus Global recession concerns deepen due to record high US i...

Sugar
  • July 19, 2022

CS Brazil Sugar Trucking Rate Soars 25% in 30 Days

Rates to truck sugar from mills to Santos port have sky-rocketed in th...

Grains
  • July 19, 2022

Corn Falls As Exports Allowed From Ukrainian Ports

Insight Focus Ukraine, Turkey, Russia and the UN reached an agreement ...

Ethanol
  • July 19, 2022

Phosphates Buck Trend as Most Fertiliser Prices Fall with Demand

Insight Focus   Urea prices fall on lower-than-expected demand Po...

Sugar
  • July 18, 2022

Daily Market Price Update and Commentary 18th July 2022

There was an immediate push higher on today’s opening as Oct’22 qu...

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