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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/romanian-farmers-block-borders-protest-over-ukrainian-grain-imports-2023-04-07/ Thousands of farmers protested across Romania on Friday over the impact of Ukrainian grain imports on prices, blocking traffic and border checkpoints with tractors and trucks and...

Markets remain well supported and reached new highs again last week. The war in Ukraine has entered its third month and Russia now appears determined to take control of the country’s entire Black Sea coastline – from west to east. If achieved, this would have severe implications for Ukraine’s...

Markets drifted towards the end of last week - as we said in last week’s update, the market has run out of momentum for now. Shelling of previously untouched Odessa on Sunday was consistent with Russia’s declared intention of moving focus to the south and east of Ukraine. However, as Russian...

Old and New crop markets posted £12 gains last week, not as spectacular as the previous week, but still one way traffic. The situation on the ground in Ukraine continues to worsen, but occasional hints at the possibility of a negotiated settlement showed themselves capable of knocking the market...

We learn more each week about Russian Military tactics. Veteran correspondents describe the encircling and subsequent prolonged artillery bombardment of key cities as consistent with other actions most recently in Chechnya and Syria. With western Governments scrambling to re-arm Ukrainian...

We are based just outside Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire, we have been aggregating and shipping aid since Tuesday 1st March. We are the aggregation and sorting centre for North Lincolnshire Council as well as various other local community groups. The sorting and storage work is self-funded and...

Grain markets reacted wildly to the emerging crisis in Ukraine and will continue to do so. Futures price swings are being driven by stop-losses, enormous margin calls and forced position closures rather than any meaningful interpretation of events on the ground. Most traders limited activity to...

Markets held the positive tone of the previous Friday , gaining £4 on the week to settle just above the multi-week support level of £220 on May LIFFE. Several Countries followed the US lead in advising citizens to exit Ukraine if possible, although it’s not clear what this is based on as yet...

Another choppy but ultimately sideways week ended with a slightly firmer tone. Egypt bought 400,000 mt of wheat in their latest tender late Friday. Nothing unusual in that but the detail is interesting - it's for March shipment and will load in Romania, Russia and Ukraine - all of course Black...

I’m a genius! We called the market to be flat and sideways for each of the last two weeks and here we are, on old crop at least, back at the same values as two Fridays ago. Let’s not dwell on the intervening period where we were £8 lower and then back up again, we just need a new catchy phrase...