The Constanta-Varna-Burgas (CVB) wheat market has entered the 2025-2026 marketing year from a firmer price base than last season, but underlying fundamentals point to a more challenging trading environment. While early summer values reflected a sense of tightness, high regional yields, weak margins and cautious farmer behavior are reshaping market dynamics and export flows, according to sources.

The year of 2025 was one of uncertainty for the US vegetable oil market, with unresolved federal biofuel and tax policies sparking major shifts in supply and demand.

Since late December 2025 and into January 2026, Russia has deliberately targeted Ukraine’s vegetable oil sector through a concentrated series of systematic attacks aimed at disrupting the segment as an integrated system, which, along with other factors, has led to increases in delivered vegoil prices to their highest levels in the last few years. In particular, the sunoil FOB six ports price has been driven to its highest level since August 2022, Fastmarkets analyses showed.

In this month's featured insight, find out more from Fastmarkets' senior analyst Eduardo Gonzalez about how non-traditional destinations like South Korea and Vietnam fuel a structural shift in US export demands.

Europe's first year under the 2% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) mandate is drawing to a close with a market defined by strong structural demand, restricted supplies and prices that tightened through most of the autumn before easing in early December.

Ukraine’s corn exports have slowed to their lowest level in a decade despite a solid harvest, with continued logistical constraints restricting shipment volumes and consequently supporting prices.

Ukraine exported 420,200 tonnes of sunflower oil in December 2025, up 3% from 409,300 tonnes in November, according to preliminary customs-based data compiled by the Ukroliyaprom Association.

These changes are based partly on market feedback and on changes to regional production and SAF flows to Chicago and Los Angeles. Additionally, the calculations for feedstock production volume loss have been updated with market feedback. The new calculation assumes maximized SAF output at a hydrotreated esters and fatty acids (HEFA) production facility, and so […]

Fastmarkets has corrected its February (M2) for AG-PLM-0012, Refined bleached deodorised (RBD) palm olein, fob Indonesia, $ per tonne, which was published incorrectly on Friday January 2 due to a reporter error.

Due to an input error, the market price for EN-BD-0032 renewable diesel, del Los Angeles, $/gal was priced well above the actual market price on December 26. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change. Incorrect daily price for December 26: 1.9026-20076 $/galCorrect daily price for December 26: 1.9026-2.0076 $/gal This price is part of […]