Oil seeds up to date: This week’s round-up

February 9, 2018 at 8:23 AM , Der AUDITOR
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FRANKFURT. Daily monitoring of the oil seed sector, comparing today’s prices with the previous day’s prices.

Several Chinese pumpkin seed kernel suppliers are already on holiday mode, and the Eastern European flaxseed as well as the Czech blue poppy seed market where mostly quiet this week.

Prices for Indian sesame seeds where stable, with slight upward tendency, although by the end of the week there followed some downward adjustments. Eastern European sunflower seed kernels are still offered at record low levels. 

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