Wheat prices on the CPT Odesa basis remain unchanged for the third week

Wheat prices on the CPT Odesa basis remain unchanged for the third week


Traders maintain a moderate pace of purchases, and processors in the central and western regions have mostly closed their needs for February-March.

On the basis of CPT Odesa, quotes have remained at $210/t for food wheat (11.5% protein) and $205/t for feed for the third week in a row. This is reported by Spike Brokers.

On external markets, Russian wheat is exerting pressure. Its FOB prices are $5-8 lower than Ukrainian ones, which allows Moscow to win tenders in the MENA region more often.

As a result, demand for Ukrainian grain is fragmented, and there is no stable demand for feed wheat due to competition with cheaper corn.

For January 1-29, wheat exports from Ukraine amounted to 498.5 thousand tons. Key destinations:

• Algeria — 174.4 thousand tons;

• Egypt — 140.9 thousand tons;

• Portugal — 66.0 thousand tons;

• Yemen — 58.8 thousand tons;

• Tunisia — 30.4 thousand tons;

• Spain — 28.6 thousand tons;

• Greece — 17.4 thousand tons.

The European direction remains weak.

As USM wrote the day before, in January Ukraine exported more than 3 million tons of grain and leguminous crops.