Key points from the article:
- Stocks in Chicago and Europe hit new monthly lows
- Strategie Grains lowered its forecast for the sunflower harvest in Bulgaria
- Euronext prices continue to fall without finding any support factors
- Political and macroeconomic uncertainty is disrupting the market
- Concerns for raw material demand are increasing due to incoming data
- Downward trend in US prices continues amid fears of a trade slowdown
- Strategie Grains lowered its forecast for the EU crop for the third time in a row
- Expected production was revised down mainly in Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Romania
- The European Commission also lowered its monthly forecasts for EU rapeseed and sunflower production
- Strategie Grains forecasts that EU rapeseed and sunflower stocks will be tight in 2024/25, despite upward revisions to forecast import volumes, and this should lead to higher prices in the near term.