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Bananas

Banana exporters take Iran war costs into 2027 contract talks as US import prices rise just 2%

US diesel up 62% since February and Del Monte's banana margin down to 2.3%; after the 2022 cost shock, US contract-season prices rose about 7%

16 Oct

Oranges
Florida orange crop to fall 23% in USDA's first 2026-27 forecast
13 Oct
Pistachios
US pistachio exports may fall by up to half as heat-hit crop meets thin stocks
23 Sep
Dairy
US ban on Canadian dairy covers only whey, a $35mn trade
10 Sep

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9 SepWed 21:28
Oilseeds
Tunisia overtakes Spain as top US olive oil supplier as Italian shipments drop 31%
Italian stocks are 43.9 per cent higher than a year ago and extra-virgin is quoted at €4.85 a kg against €9.59 last August
27 AugThu 18:36
Lemons
Imported lemon prices fall 40% at US ports while California fruit holds firm
A surge of Argentine and Chilean supply has driven imported spot values sharply lower, but the domestic market has not followed them down.
24 AugMon 21:22
Apples
Washington stops forecasting its apple crop, leaving the market to size the harvest
The state that grows two-thirds of US apples dropped its early-season estimate and declined to refine USDA's number, leaving one marketer's figure as the only Washington read.
19 AugWed 22:14
Corn
Illinois corn holds through its wettest August since 1993 as Minnesota drought races the crop to maturity
The first official crop scores since the belt split show the dry north-west still rating higher than the drowned east, and the yield number the market is trading was surveyed before the deluge.
17 AugMon 19:26
Soybeans
USDA's record soybean yield forecasts predate 5x normal rain in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio
The 12 August forecast surveyed growers to 5 August, before the heaviest rain fell — while south-west Minnesota had its second-driest first half of August in 86 years
14 AugFri 09:37
Sorghum
USDA cuts US sorghum crop by a third with the hottest week still to come
The August forecast was surveyed as the High Plains heated up. Kansas flowers into a week forecast at up to 7.8C above normal, just as China returns as the buyer of 87 per cent of US exports
12 AugWed 16:36
Almonds
California's almond crop goes to market without a government measurement for the first time in 60 years
The Almond Board stopped funding the USDA's July field estimate after it missed by about 10 per cent; handlers are negotiating new-crop prices against private numbers instead
11 AugTue 11:12
Walnuts
California's in-shell walnut shipments to Turkey quadruple, then meet a higher duty
Shipments reached 54,849 tonnes in the ten months to June as a Turkish frost and the end of a Section 232 retaliation reopened the market, but Ankara raised the walnut duty to 20 per cent in February

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