Sugar
- According to cash traders, bulk sugar offers for 2025-26 were steady for both beet and cane sugar over the last week, with minimal new crop bookings reported by participants at the annual sugar colloquium this week
- U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced the USDA is providing $150 million in assistance to American sugar beet and sugarcane farmers in response to temporary market disruptions and increased production and processing costs
- Spot global sugar futures in the U.S. extended gains, rising to their highest level in over three weeks, driven in part by a stronger Brazilian real that discourages Brazilian exports and eases pressure on global prices, according to analysts
Dry Beans
- Domestic dry bean end users have completed their Q2 coverage and are assessing offers for Q3, according to this week’s updates from cash dealers
- Early indications from trade analysts are that total dry bean acreage in the U.S. will be mostly steady for 2026, compared to 2025
- The last round of USDA-posted weekly cash offers were 12-14% lower than last year’s levels for the spot position delivered to the warehouse for most dry bean varieties
Rice
- U.S. cash dealers report that domestic bookings of milled and industrial rice are complete through Q2, with buyers assessing offers for Q3
- According to KATV news, leading agricultural lenders and cooperatives in Arkansas are warning that low crop prices may push farmers to plant roughly 30% less rice this year, and that could do permanent damage to the state's rice industry
- The spot rice futures contract has now dropped 13.5% from its early February peak
Flour
- The wheat markets were steady this week
- Current domestic 10-to-14-day weather forecasts are not showing any severe cold weather risks for the dormant U.S. winter wheat crop, but conditions are expected to remain dry, according to analysts
- According to Trading Economics, weekly export inspections of wheat are running 19% ahead of last year
- Recent strength in the soybean complex has helped to underpin wheat prices in recent weeks, according to analysts
- According to Reuters, Indonesia could struggle to meet its pledge for a significant ramp-up of U.S. agricultural imports under its new trade deal, in which it pledged to raise annual U.S. wheat imports to 2 million metric tons, from 1.1 million metric tons last year
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