Persistent rain is preventing harvesting machinery from operating in potato fields across Latvia. The crop was initially considered good, but waterlogging, pest damage and high fuel costs are reducing the volume and value that growers can bring to market.
Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food expects a 2026 potato crop of about 12.5 million tonnes, far above domestic food consumption of 2-2.5 million tonnes a year. Average selling prices have fallen 15% over the past month to around 14 hryvnias per kilogram, with regional purchase prices as low as 12 hryvnias. Commercial output comes from roughly 400 enterprises working some 60,000 hectares.
A potato growers' protest that began in Farrukhabad district has drawn backing from farmer leaders in Haryana, Punjab, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, Hindustan reported. Uttar Pradesh has implemented the Bhamashah Bhav Sthirta Kosh Yojana, paying eligible farmers up to ₹40,000 when market prices fall, according to News18 Hindi. The next demonstration is set for 18 September at the Kannauj collectorate.
An analyst at the Brazilian consultancy Datagro expects Chinese buyers to intensify purchases of Brazilian beef between the end of September and early October, UOL reported. The timing would put cargoes in China from January, when the 2027 quota period begins. No volumes or prices were disclosed.
Indonesia is holding a soybean stockpile of 475,000 tons, a volume described as adequate for current demand, according to Bisnis Indonesia. Tofu and tempeh producers nonetheless remain cautious, citing supply certainty and price stability as the conditions they need for uninterrupted production.
US ethanol exports through June 2026 were 12 percent higher by volume and 21 percent higher by value than the record pace of 2025, according to a USDA report. Shipments reached 8.4 billion litres worth $4.7 billion in 2025, and the American share of world ethanol exports climbed to 64 percent as Brazil's fell to 12 percent. India remains a leading destination, buying 711 million litres of industrial ethanol in 2025.
Italian malting barley production fell 39% in 2026 after drought and adverse weather, with two-row barley yields dropping from 55 to 37 quintals per hectare. The figures were presented by Coldiretti and the Consorzio Birra Italiana with Filiera Agricola Italiana at a meeting in Terrasini, Sicily, which also hosted the first brew of Kidda, a beer made from an entirely Italian chain.
CBOT corn futures fell on Wednesday, 16 September, with the December 2026 contract at US$5.34 a bushel, as traders waited for results from the US harvest. In Brazil, B3 closed mixed at R$80.15 a sack for January 2027, while cash trade stalled on producer selling resistance.
Russia shipped 859,000 tonnes of sunflower oil to India in January–July for $1.17 billion, 34.7% more in value than a year earlier, according to Indian trade ministry data cited by Interfax. July alone brought $120.2 million, more than double the same month of last year, while Russian soybean oil deliveries fell by about two-thirds.
Côte d’Ivoire has set its guaranteed cocoa producer price for the 2026/27 season at CFA1,200 per kilogram. The price reflects export contracts sold mainly between March and June 2026, before international cocoa prices recovered sharply.
Independent energy expert Kirill Rodionov says gasoline volumes missing from the Russian market could be covered by imports from India, Turkey and Singapore, with India holding the largest export potential. Belarus remains the main supplier, shipping 610,000 tonnes of gasoline over the summer, about 6 percent of Russian demand.
Morocco suspended the import duty on live sheep and on bovine, ovine, caprine and camel meat under a draft decree approved on 22 July, but import volumes remain modest. Operators point to high sheep prices in Spain, expensive frozen beef in Brazil and the VAT still applied to imports. Mutton on the domestic market is approaching 170 dirhams per kilogram.
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