Rapeseed prices in Ukraine have reached their highest levels in the season, but large traders are completing purchases, which reduces export demand and quotes

small residues will not allow collecting a shipload, so large international companies have closed their purchasing programs, and only a few traders are buying rapeseed for delivery by May 1. Last week, export prices for rapeseed reached their highest levels this season at $570-580/t or UAH 26,500-27,000/t with delivery to Black Sea ports, as a result of which processors were forced to raise prices to UAH 24,500-25,500/t with delivery to the factory. Prices for rapeseed oil delivered to the EU rose only to $1,300-1,320/t, which corresponds to $1,200/t delivered to the port or the western border. This week, rapeseed export prices fell to $570/t due to lack of competition and low demand. May rapeseed futures on the Paris exchange continue to surge in speculative volume a week before their expiration (expires on April 25). Last week, they rose by 3.7% to a season-high of €516.75/t or $609/t (+10.6% since the start of the war), but August futures rose by only 2.6% to €502/t (+6.5% ...