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  Africa rising: The new global landscape of organic soy

  27 October 2023. Since 2022, the rapid rise of African organic soy has changed the fundamental landscape of global organic soy trade. Understanding the drivers of this change is critical for organic industry stakeholders as they navigate the market moving forward.
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  Russia, Ukraine: impact on the global fertilizer and agriculture markets

  04 May 2023. Watch our 45-minute on-demand webinar as Argus market experts address the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on global fertilizer and agriculture markets.
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  Higher highs and lower lows: What's next for sunflower oil?

  30 March 2023. It was only a year ago when sunflower oil (SFO) truly lived up to its golden colour, costing more than double the price of Brent crude. SFO prices have almost steadily come down since March last year, with losses quickening this month, driven by looser market fundamentals, turbulence in competing vegetable oil businesses — especially rapeseed oil (RSO) — and wider macroeconomic concerns.
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  Mind the gap: Mena grain imports

  1 March 2023. Importers in several Middle Eastern and North African (Mena) countries have struggled to fulfil their grain purchase contracts owing to an ongoing shortage of foreign currency, with an increasing call for international monetary institutions to step in to handle the gap, preventing any significant fallout from large volumes of unloaded grain.
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  Agriculture Insights: Brazil corn exports to China move closer

  15 November 2022. Brazil is finally moving closer to start shipping corn to China seven years after an export protocol signed between the two parties.
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  Market talks: Brazil is set to reach a record cotton output in the 2022-23 crop year

  20 October 2022. Higher international prices have motivated Brazilian farmers to expand cotton acreage in the 2022-23 season, which could lead the country to a record in cotton lint production. But higher input costs have decreased fertilizer usage for cotton crops.
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  Agriculture Insights: Back from the fields… Canada wheat crop tour 

  3 October 2022. In a context of the current conflict in Ukraine, Canada, as one of the major producers and exporters of wheat and other agricultural products, is becoming one of the alternatives to the volumes potentially absent from the Black Sea region.
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  Corn outlook 2022-23: The year of redrawn trade routes?

  23 September 2022. With the global corn market navigating the continuing uncertainties surrounding Ukraine’s export capacity and a deteriorated supply outlook in the northern hemisphere, the 2022-23 marketing year that gets under way in October looks like being the year when established trade routes are redrawn.
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