Fastmarkets will not publish any price assessments for wheat, barley, corn, vegoils and meals for Europe, Ukraine and Russia, nor Black Sea sunflower, on Monday August 26 due to holidays in Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

The UK government’s first release of provisional biofuel data for the calendar year to the end of July 2024, published on Wednesday August 14, reveals a notable decline in renewable fuel activity compared with the same period last year.

French soft wheat conditions declined by 1 percentage point in the week to August 12, according to a weekly report released by farm agency FranceAgriMer on Friday August 16.

Fastmarkets launched price assessments for AG-RSD-0005 rapeseed cpt crush plant and AG-RSD-0006 rapeseed cpt POC on Monday August 19, 2024.

Fastmarkets launched assessments of the prices for AG-PF-0009 poultry fat, 2% FFA, DDP North-West Europe, and AG-PF-0008 poultry fat, 8% FFA, DDP North-West Europe, on Thursday August 15.

Fastmarkets senior analyst and forecaster, Tore Alden, answers six key questions on the challenges faced by the sustainable aviation fuel industry

The USDA raised estimates for US soybean production to 4.6 billion bu, surpassing previous records and market projections.

Sales of Argentine soybeans and corn rose for the 2024/25 marketing year but fell for 2023/24 in the week to July 31, while wheat sales increased week on week across both crop years, according to data released by Argentina’s agriculture secretariat on Wednesday August 7.

In July, low-grade consumption remained muted across key regions with the three main sectors, while the pallet market struggled with low prices and a surplus of recycled pallets.

Fastmarkets proposes to amend the pricing frequency of its three main European biodiesel assessments, both as outright prices and as premiums to the underlying gasoil contract, as well as its ultra low sulfur diesel assessment from a weekly basis to daily.