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Bloomberg survey median of 3.45mn tonnes would top the 2018 peak; the El Niño dry spell over the palm belt has yet to reach the crop, with MPOB data due on 12 October
Thai benchmark rallied from May on Philippine and Malaysian reserve-building; Indian prices now rising after weakest monsoon since 2015, with record stocks capping the gain
Russian export offers fall to lowest since April 2024 while US Gulf wheat hits three-year high; Russia now quotes $268 a tonne from the Baltic against a notional $210 at Novorossiysk
Handlers shipped 1.3bn lb in 2025/26 and enter an off-year with 221m lb in store and a crop estimated at 600m to 800m lb
Egyptian surplus cleared in Latin America as tighter EU checks leave compliant fruit scarce; industry expects plantings to fall by up to 30 per cent next season
Belgapom quotation steady for four weeks after three seasons in which opening prices fell 58 to 75 per cent; EEX delisted the European processing potato future on 5 June
Almería and Granada growers were paid €1.15/kg in 2025/26 as Spain’s fresh-tomato export volume fell 45% over eleven campaigns and Morocco became the EU’s larger supplier.
A surge of Argentine and Chilean supply has driven imported spot values sharply lower, but the domestic market has not followed them down.
Nashik logged its second-wettest June-July in 86 years, rotting the stored crop that carries the market to October.
The state that grows two-thirds of US apples dropped its early-season estimate and declined to refine USDA's number, leaving one marketer's figure as the only Washington read.
The first official crop scores since the belt split show the dry north-west still rating higher than the drowned east, and the yield number the market is trading was surveyed before the deluge.
