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Flash

The 3-4 page FLASH is published daily from Tuesday to Friday and is circulated by e-mail. The report gives daily analyses, daily prices, forecasts and opinion on the pertinent market topics of today and tomorrow. It serves the world’s oilseed, oil and feed industries and other market participants with reliable and unbiased information.

SAMPLE

Tuesday July 28, 2026

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • China has so far purchased 4-5 Mn T of US soybeans for shipment from Sept 1 onward compared with nil at the same time last year, with details given in the FLASH.

  • We have made additional upward revisions in our soybean crush estimates for Brazil and Argentina, following new reports about ongoing large exports of soya oil and meal.

  • In several US soybean and corn producing areas of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Minnesota considerable rainfall deficits during July 1-25 have raised the need for favourable rainfall in the next 2-4 weeks. Whether the rains arrive or fail is going to become an important price-determining factor.

  • Prices of rapeseed as well as of rapeseed oil and meal increased pronouncedly in Europe during the past 2-3 weeks, partly due to lower than expected yields of this year’s crop in some key producing areas, with details in the FLASH.

  • China has boosted imports of oilmeals by 1.2 Mn T or 30% in Jan/June 2026.

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Friday July 24, 2026

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • Survey of weekly and monthly world market prices of major oilseeds, vegetable and animal oils & fats and oilmeals up to July 23.

  • Sharp increase in rapeseed prices in Europe due to lower than expected production and relatively small imports.

  • Prices of rapeseed oil increased even more sharply in Rotterdam by US-$ 190-200 or 14-15% in the two weeks to July 23, now commanding even a premium over sunflower oil.

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Thursday July 16, 2026

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • Soybean crushings of the USA, Brazil and Argentina increased by a combined 2.6 Mn T from a year earlier in April/June, driven by rising soya oil demand, as we explain in the FLASH.

  • The big challenge this year is to find a home for the sharply increasing supplies of soya meal.

  • Exports of groundnuts of 6 major countries increased pronouncedly by 13% to a record 2.1 Mn T in Oct/May 2025/26.

  • European prices of rapeseed, oil and meal appreciated contra-seasonally during the past two weeks, with details in the FLASH.

  • In India, the shortage of domestic soybeans has resulted in tightening soya meal supplies and booming soybean imports, while exports of soya meal were decimated.

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Wednesday July 15, 2026

The following are the headlines of the respective FLASH report.

The full report (3-4 pages) is available either on a subscription basis (by e-mail) or can be purchased and downloaded individually.

  • The weather phenomenon El Nino is forecast to become a very strong one in Sept/Dec 2026 and continue in early 2027, which has raised the risk of dryness and crop losses in Southeast Asia and in India.

  • Prices of palmkernel oil have strengthened considerably on the world market, as we discuss below.

  • In the Philippines, rainfall was above one third below normal during March/June 2026.

  • Fish meal & oil: This year’s severe Peruvian production shortfall has slashed world exports in April/June 2026 and will again do so in the current July/Sept quarter.

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