Pause in publication of European, Black Sea agricultural products price assessments

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.

Normal service will resume on August 27.

For more information or to provide feedback on the publication of these assessments, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these assessments, please contact Eduardo Tinti by email at: pricing.ags@ fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Eduardo Tinti, re: Europe and Black Sea agricultural products price assessments.”

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, go to: https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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