Crude oil rose above $75 a barrel as equities rebounded from the biggest three-day decline since March on signs that Ben S. Bernanke will be reconfirmed as Federal Reserve chairman.
Ukraine exported in July-December, the first six months of the current marketing year, 6.9 million metric tons of wheat, 4% more than in the corresponding period in the previous marketing year, the agriculture ministry reported Monday.
Wheat futures fell in the last minute of trading in Chicago, erasing earlier gains, as rising global inventories are expected to overwhelm demand for the grain.
On January 22, 2010, the Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia dd. January 21, 2010, #3-r about the beginning of public commodity interventions of maize of the harvest-2008 was promulgated.
In 2009, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) produced 94.9 thsd tonnes of rice, an increase of 55.1% compared to 2008, declared the Main statistics department of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
The further growth of grain export volumes from Ukraine is impossible without the development of the appropriate infrastructure, especially sea and river elevators, according to the analytical note of the investment group Socrates.
Due to populism and poor government policies, the pace of development is extremely disappointing. Ukraine has recovered its reputation as the breadbasket of Europe by posting record harvests in recent years, more than 52 and 48 million tons of grain in the past two seasons, respectively. Moreover, investment into the sector has increased sharply. However, I think that the pace of development is extremely disappointing and that Ukrainian governments did everything possible with poor policies to slow it down. Had they not, Ukraine’s agriculture sector would already be generating much larger harvests and at least twice as much value as it generates today.
World wheat production is expected to fall in both the 2009-10 and 2010-11 harvest periods, the International Grains Council said Thursday.
European Union cereal production is expected to be virtually unchanged at 292 million metric tons in 2010-11 compared to the previous harvest year, Strategie Grains said in its monthly report published Thursday.
Black sea wheat prices are likely to be under pressure this year amid large inventories and may test $155-$160 a metric ton, free-on-board, a senior industry executive has said.