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Agriculture news shows that the market is transforming before our eyes. At one level there is structural change as the global market increasingly decentralizes into a complex market of markets. At another level there is just the constant change driven from severe weather, geopolitical tensions, nation’s domestic priorities, surging biofuel demand and growing food insecurity concerns.

The sheer weight of both creates a volatile, noisy market. A market where it is both challenging to stay apace with market news and even harder to determine what the news really means – separating out signal from noise.

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Investors in the US corn and soybean markets trimmed shorts while amassing longs in the week to Tuesday January 14, pushing the corn net long to the highest-level since May 2022 and moving soybeans from a net short to a net long for the first time in more than a year, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed late on Friday January 17.

Fastmarkets launched AG-WHE-0058 Wheat 10.5% fob US Gulf SRW wheat $/mt on January 6, 2025.

Global used cooking oil (UCO) prices were highly volatile throughout 2024 amid market uncertainty, trade flow and policy changes, with market sources expecting the prices to increase further in 2025, pushed up by higher demand and increased biofuel production obligations.

The publication of Fastmarkets’ Ukrainian sunoil and sunmeal, and Russian sunoil assessments between January 2, 2020 and March 11, 2022 were delayed because of a technical issue.

In December, increased demand from various industries led to a 5-10% rise in EU animal fats prices, supported by high seasonal rendering activity and regulatory factors affecting vegetable oil supply.

Gasoline and diesel prices in the UK are set to begin 2025 significantly lower than a year earlier, but uncertainty and potential volatility lie ahead due to a combination of an upcoming administration change in the US and other global events and policies, experts told Fastmarkets.

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