Oilseeds

Flaxseed

Hot nights hit Kazakhstan's flax at its oil-fill peak just as Europe leans on it for three-fifths of supply

Night minima 6°C above normal at Petropavl land on the fortnight the crop sets its oil content, weeks before the September export season opens

Ukraine's seaports become its discount outlet as shipowners refuse to sail into Odesa

Corn delivered to Odesa is bid $26 a tonne below corn railed to the western border, and crushers have stopped buying seed even though margins are intact

Canola/Rapeseed

France sows next year's rapeseed into bone-dry ground as prices hit a three-and-a-half-year high

Seven of eight monitored points in the French belt took a third or less of normal July rainfall, weeks before drilling begins for the 2027 crop

Canola/Rapeseed

Cold and saturated fields delay Canadian canola planting just as China returns

With fields too cold to seed and too wet to drive, Prairie farmers face a compressed May window — just as China resumes buying Canadian canola.