Corn: fake news about export stop in Ukraine
March 23, 2020 at 3:39 PM ,
Der AUDITOR
Prices in the animal feed sector have also risen noticeably. Similar to the milling industry, the feed mills have also increased their supplies in order to avoid possible restrictions in delivery traffic. After the automobile industry cut back its production, freight traffic on the motorways decreased. However, the haulage companies are operating at much lower capacity because truck drivers from the eastern EU avoid quarantines and are reluctant to risk contagion. In contrast to the flour and pasta business, there have not yet been any supply bottlenecks for grain maize. The price increase for has different reasons: firstly, the euro exchange rate has fallen below 1.07 USD/EUR, which makes Ukrainian and Brazilian imported corn more expensive, if it is available at all from South America due to strikes by warehouse workers and truck drivers. In the Ukraine, corn exports increased to 835,000 mt last week, with two ships being loaded into China. Rumors that Ukraine wants to restrict its agricultural exports due to quarantine and export restrictions on staple foods were not confirmed. "Under no circumstances will such a ban be imposed on poultry meat, cereals, vegetable oil and other goods in which Ukraine is the world leader in world exports," said Taras Kachka, Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture. In South Oldenburg, the concentrated feed industry last bought feed wheat for 199 EUR per metric tonne DDP, corn cost around 192 EUR per metric tonne.
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Corn, daily price development |
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Parity |
EUR/mt |
Diff. EUR/mt |
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Bordeaux, FOB |
163.00 |
3.00 |
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La Pallice, FOB |
162.00 |
3.00 |
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Netherlands, CIF |
186.00 |
2.00 |
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Oldenburg, DDP |
192.00 |
2.00 |
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Brake, FOT |
188.00 |
5.00 |
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Lower Rhine Region, DDP |
188.00 |
5.00 |
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Upper Rhine Region, FOB |
182.00 |
0.00 |
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Ukraine, FOB |
- |
- |
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Trade sources |
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