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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

Wednesday September 2, 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.

  • Weather developments in Australia in the next 6-8 weeks will strongly determine the outlook for EU rapeseed oil supplies in Jan/June 2027...

  • Palm oil prices appreciated in line with rising soya oil and energy prices after the long holiday weekend. Palm olein prices (fob Malaysia) for October shipment were quoted at US-$ 1250 on Sept 1, roughly $ 100 above the average registered in July. 

  • Turkish sunflowerseed imports will be resumed in early October following the government decision to lower the import tax..

  • Tightening export supplies pushed world market prices of fish oils to new highs in August, making demand-rationing inevitable and  promoting a shift towards alternative omega-3 sources...

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Tuesday September 1, 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.

  • Aside from the global vegetable oil supply concerns we outlined in the OIL WORLD Monthly last week, biofuel policies are likely to remain a key price-determining factor in the 2026/27 season...

  • Ongoing high mineral oil prices continued to support biofuel margins in August. The rally in gas oil prices significant outpaced the price increase in Indonesian palm oil, turning the premium of CPO vs. gas oil of $ 450-460 in Aug 2025 into a discount of $ 20-30 last month....

  • US crops suffered from dryness and heat in several parts of the US Midwest in August, pushing prices higher....

  • Crops suffered from dryness and heat in several parts of the US Midwest in August...

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Thursday August 27, 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.

  • South American soybean plantings and crop prospects will gain importance as a price-determining factor in coming weeks. This is discussed in the FLASH report, including possible impacts from El Niño.

  • Sizable increases in soya meal prices on the world market with Argentine origin currently up 25% from a year earlier, contributing to a further increase in production costs and deteriorating livestock profitability.

  • In Russia, this year’s soybean production is expected to decline by 1.0-1.2 Mn T from last year.

  • Thai exports of palm oil plummeting by 53% from last year in April/July 2026.

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Wednesday August 26, 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.

  • Analysis of oilseed plantings during the past seven years worldwide confirms the increasing dependence on soybeans, sunflowerseed and rapeseed, which is confirmed by a substantial increase in combined plantings of the three oilseeds by 41.9 Mn ha in the 7 seasons from 2019/20 up to 2026/27.

  • Palm oil prices declined today in Southeast Asia. While current stocks are comfortably large in Malaysia and Indonesia, market participants are now focussing on the production outlook for the coming months.

  • Rapeseed production in South America is estimated to increase by 0.5 Mn T or roughtly 40% in 2026/27, mainly in Uruguay and Brazil, with details given in the FLASH.

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