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.

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.

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.

Fastmarkets has corrected its AG-WHE-0050 Wheat CFR North Africa price assessment, which was published incorrectly on October 2-14 due to a procedural lapse. Fastmarkets has also corrected all the related inferred prices.

US and European wheat futures were little changed near multi-year lows on Monday October 20, with market participants weighing abundant global supply, reports of hedge fund short covering and a rare USDA data release.

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

Fastmarkets has corrected to its AG-WHE-0003 Wheat 11.5% FOB Argentina, which was published incorrectly on October 6, 2025. AG-WHE-0003 Wheat 11.5% FOB Argentina M9 was initially published at $331 per tonne on October 6. This has been corrected to $231 per tonne. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change. This price is part […]

US and European wheat futures declined on Friday September 26 on expectations of ample global supplies as the Northern Hemisphere harvest nears its end, and on the prospects of healthy harvests in Southern Hemisphere producers Australia and Argentina.

Russia’s weekly wheat exports from Black Sea ports totaled 459,564 tonnes in the week ending Thursday September 18, down by 396,681 tonnes (46%) from the 856,245 tonnes loaded in the previous week, according to Fastmarkets analytics data published on Friday.