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Fruits

Spanish persimmon crop shrinks by up to a third, leaving Europe short of autumn fruit

Spain supplied 86% of the EU's persimmon imports last season; growers are divided over how much record heat is to blame

14 Oct

Canola/Rapeseed
Rapeseed sowing stalls in Hungary, Serbia and Romania after driest summer since 1946
5 Oct
Cocoa
Record September rain soaks Ecuador cocoa belt as El Niño arrives early
28 Sep
Bananas
Drought emergencies spread in Central America as Guatemala banana belt gets 26% of normal rain
10 Sep

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8 SepTue 21:20
Potatoes
Belgian potato price holds at €200 as heat trims crop and futures hedge disappears
Belgapom quotation steady for four weeks after three seasons in which opening prices fell 58 to 75 per cent; EEX delisted the European processing potato future on 5 June
3 SepThu 17:41
Bananas
Record rain swamps Costa Rica banana belt, export hit seen from late October
Matina had 532.8mm in the 21 days to 28 August, the most since records began in 1940; Corbana says damage takes 10 to 12 weeks to show
25 AugTue 22:17
Grapes
Andalusia puts Axarquía Muscat losses at up to 70% after record July heat
The regional government has quantified the damage in its own market report, even as the harvest that would carry the evidence is being picked.
25 AugTue 19:37
Onions
India releases onion buffer stock as monsoon damage in Nashik drives retail prices up 59%
Nashik logged its second-wettest June-July in 86 years, rotting the stored crop that carries the market to October.
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.
18 AugTue 20:41
Mangoes
Peru mango exports to fall 60%, exporter says, as heat hits flowering
Record heat has stalled flowering on the northern coast; the last comparable event, in 2023, cut US imports 74% and nearly doubled European wholesale prices.
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 09:54
Pears
Lleida's Conference pear harvest opens 40 to 80 per cent down on a forecast that said it would rise
Afrucat and the Catalan government counted the fruit at the end of June, before the hottest July in 87 years stopped it sizing. WAPA put the EU Conference crop up 2.1 per cent four days before picking began.

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