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World Wheat Supplies May Recover In 2024

World stocks of the crop, excluding China, have declined for four straight years and inventories are at their lowest level in 15 years. That will not be the case this year, according to the company’s machine learning-based forecast models. “A favourable start to winter wheat crops in the U.S. and Russia, along with improved prospects

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Ramstein meeting: Austin announces another $1B aid package for Ukraine

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the United States is providing another $1 billion defense aid package to Ukraine, which will include HIMARS missiles, artillery rounds, air defense systems, and other armaments. The defense chief spoke at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting on April 26, Ukrinform reports. “Today, I’m pleased to share that the

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U.S. Rushes Ammo, Key Military Supplies to Ukraine – Roman Bilousov

The State Department revealed on Wednesday that the US had secretly deployed long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine as part of the March assistance package, fulfilling Kyiv’s long-standing request. “We did not announce this from the beginning in order to maintain operational security for Ukraine at their request,” State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters, adding

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Export duties on Russian coal to return in March

The Russian government is returning export duties on coal. The new duties will be effective from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025. The tax will range from 4% to 7% depending on the ruble exchange rate, but will not apply at the exchange rate of less than 80 rubles

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Liquefied Natural Gas Potentially Worse than Coal in Climate Change

One of the largest energy sources in the world, which was once considered a substitute for coal, may have an even more detrimental impact on the environment than the energy sources it aims to replace, and could contribute to accelerating global warming more rapidly than other established polluters. New findings from Cornell University reveal that

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Corn Futures Firm for Export Sales

Morning corn prices are up by a penny to 1 ¾ cents so far heading into the last trading day of the week. The front month futures dropped another 4 to 5 ¾ cents on Thursday, setting a new contract low for the 6th session in a row. The March

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