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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 Sep 16

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 start of soybean plantings in Brazil is delayed due to very dry conditions in Mato Grosso and Parana and there is concern about forecasts of below-normal rainfall in Oct/Dec, probably associated with the La Nina weather phenomenon, which could curb Brazilian soybean production in early 2026…

  • Argentine soybean export registrations for September are unusually high, as we point out in the FLASH, mainly to China…

  • Soybean crushings exceeding expectations in the USA in August, partly due to higher demand of soya oil…

  • Increasing Indian vegetable oil imports; but stocks of vegetable oils still down sharply by about 1.0 Mn T from a year earlier…

  • World production of linseed & flaxseed turning out much better than initially expected, putting prices under pressure, with details given in the FLASH, mainly focussing on Kazakhstan, Russia and Canada….

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Thursday Sep 11

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.

  • World oilmeal demand prospects for 2025/26 are still highly uncertain. However, we consider the recent uptrend in soya meal prices in the cash and futures markets to be only temporary.…

  • World exports of soya oil increased substantially by an estimated 3.9 Mn T or 32% on the year to a record of about 15.9 Mn T in Sept/Aug 2024/25.…

  • Latest data suggest larger than initially expected EU-27 oilseed crushings in Apr/June 2025. Rapeseed processing reached 5.79 Mn T last quarter.…

  • Bangladesh: Combined imports of soya oil and palm oil are seen increasing by 9% to a record 2.5 Mn T in Oct/Sept 2024/25. Import demand is driven by rising consumption and insufficient domestic production.…

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Wednesday Sep 10

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 widening price discount of Canadian canola as well as latest Ukrainian export restrictions are likely to result in larger than initially expected EU imports of Canadian canola in 2025/26.…

  • Comparatively high prices offered for the remaining 2024 Canadian canola crop in recent months reduced on-farm stocks to less than 0.4 Mn T as of July 31, down 0.9 Mn T or 70% from a year earlier and the lowest level since 2013…

  • Malaysian exports of crude and processed palm oils were comparatively small at 1.32 Mn T in August, leading to a further accumulation of stocks…

  • Indonesian biodiesel production increased to a new high of 6.5 Mn T in Jan/June 2025 (vs. 5.7 Mn T a year earlier ), driven by the increase of the mandatory admixture in early 2025.…

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Tuesday Sep 9

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.

  • Lack of Chinese buying is currently outweighing the bullishness of deteriorating US soybean crop conditions, keeping new-crop prices in Chicago under pressure…

  • Soybean exports of 5 major countries to China increased by 2.7 Mn T in August, suggesting an ongoing sizeable year-on-year increase in Chinese imports in September…

  • Ukrainian sunflowerseed crushings were small at only about 0.6 Mn T in August, which reduced the total for the full season Sept/Aug 2024/25 to a 9-year low  of 11.9 Mn T (down from 15.0 a year earlier).…

  • Soybean prices have declined by 5–6% on the Indian wholesale market since mid-August, falling 14% below the MSP early this week. Price pressure on the world market has spilled over to India via large imports of soya oil and strong competition for Indian soya meal exporters.…

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