USDA’s January report can be one of the most volatile of the year, setting the stage for the next several months. USDA will release its final production estimates for 2019, even though significant quantities of corn are still unharvested in the snow of the northern Midwest. Nonetheless, its January report will be almost exclusively reflective of farm survey results, opening the door for surprises. It will be released with a companion quarterly stocks report that often contains surprises. The risk of that is even higher this year due to the late harvest of lower-quality crops. Furthermore, it make potential adjustments in its South American corn and soybean production estimates, and USDA will release its first survey-based winter wheat seedings estimates for 2020 amid drought conditions in the southwestern Plains and a late soybean harvest across the belt that may have impacted double-crop wheat acres.

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INTL FCStone’s Brazilian Market Intelligence analyzes the main factors that influenced major agricultural commodities in recent months and provides insight on what to expect from January to March 2020.

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Ahora más que nunca, se globaliza el alcance del mercado de los productores y usuarios del aceite de palma. Como resultado de esto, los factores de la oferta y la demanda que alguna vez apenas repercutieron en el mercado local ahora pueden crear un grado mayor de incertidumbre y volatilidad en los precios.

INTL FCStone's Brazil Market Intelligence team comments on the Amazon fires, its international repercussions, the possible economic impacts, and how Brazil can reconcile environmental conservation and agribusiness development. 

The news coming out of China is dominated by the trade war and civil unrest in Hong Kong. But the country-wide outbreak of African Swine Fever could well be the most impactful and under-reported story to hit the People’s Republic in years.  Get up to date by downloading Pig Epidemic Continues to Spread through China and Beyond.

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