Soybean futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) rose on Friday November 28 in a holiday-shortened session due to Thanksgiving.

The 2026 Black Sea Wheat and Corn Outlook highlights a stabilized yet evolving grain market, with Russia and Ukraine adapting to post-conflict logistics, competitive pricing, and strong production despite ongoing regional challenges.

Learn about Brazil's approval of steel slag for agricultural use, enhancing soil health and acidity correction processes.

Vegoils futures dropped across markets and regions, with Malaysian crude palm oil (CPO) futures hitting a four-month low while Chicago soyoil futures fell, pressured by lower crude oil prices and expectations around US biofuel policies.

The Global Grain Geneva 2025 Conference highlighted an industry navigating a "new normal" of uncertainty, where geopolitical upheavals, climate challenges, and sustainability demands are reshaping grain markets, supply chains, and risk strategies.

Fastmarkets has corrected several hide and leather monthly averages calculated between December 2023 and May 2024 after identifying a back-end calculation error. The full list of incorrect and corrected prices can be found here. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change. These prices are part of the Fastmarkets Industrial Agriculture package. For more information […]

The 2026 Black Sea Wheat and Corn Outlook highlights a stabilized yet evolving grain market, with Russia and Ukraine adapting to post-conflict logistics, competitive pricing, and strong production despite ongoing regional challenges.

Fastmarkets’ weekly recap of the main movements in global cash markets.

A meeting of the German Federal Cabinet on the implementation of the European Commission's Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) was postponed again on Wednesday, November 12, after having already been pushed back for several weeks, sparking a negative reaction in the European biofuels market.

The publication of several of Fastmarkets’ soybean and corn prices for November 10, 2025, were delayed because of a third party data feed error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.