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Above average rains interspersed with sun last week in most of Ivory Coast's main cocoa growing regions will help the October-to-March main crop finish strong, farmers said on Monday.

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) has raised its forecasts for the country's 2023/24 wheat, barley and canola crops, though output would be well below last season's bumper levels, it said in a report.

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Canadian farmers will harvest more wheat and canola than was expected several months ago, as crops rallied from dry conditions that threatened yields, a government report showed on Monday.

Ukraine's grain exports have fallen to around 13.4 million metric tons so far in the 2023/24 July-June marketing season, agriculture ministry data showed on Monday.

Wall Street was set to open lower on Monday, as investors turned wary ahead of a slew of economic data this week that is likely to test the narrative about a cut in interest rates by the Federal Reserve early next year.

Copper prices retreated on Monday as the dollar strengthened, with further pressure coming from an increase in stocks in London Metal Exchange (LME) warehouses and resurfacing doubts over Chinese demand prospects.

Bangladesh's state grains buyer has issued another international tender to purchase 50,000 metric tons of milling wheat, European traders said on Monday.

BFA is one of the enabling materials constituting the picks and shovels of the world’s current industrial backbone, critical to everything from steel production to basic materials production to national defense applications.

Exceptionally hot and dry weather in Brazil’s leading soybean region persisted for a second consecutive month through November, maintaining yield concerns.

Chicago soybean prices fell on Monday following forecasts for crop-friendly rain this week in drought-stricken Brazil, the biggest global supplier.

Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi will continue her fight for human rights even if it leads to her death, she said in a letter smuggled out from prison and published on Monday by Swedish public broadcaster SVT.

The biggest pig breeders in China, consumer of fully half the world's pork, seem to have bitten off more than they can chew.

Malaysian palm oil inventories at the end of November were seen falling for the first month since April, as a seasonal output decline was expected to start while exports continued to rise, a Reuters survey showed on Monday.

Belgium has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, on a poultry farm in the northwestern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday.

Russia's Black Sea ports are working on Monday as weather conditions permit, the Ministry of Transport said in a statement, after storms caused considerable disruption to loadings of crude in recent days.

Strategie Grains issued a slight increase to its estimate of this year's rapeseed harvest in the European Union, citing better yields than previously expected in Denmark and to a lesser extent in western Europe.

Ukraine's grain exports have fallen to around 13.4 million metric tons so far in the 2023/24 July-June marketing season, agriculture ministry data showed on Monday.

Thailand's cabinet has approved a budget of 7.9 billion baht ($226.36 million) in incentives for sugarcane farmers not to burn their crops, and reduce pollution, a government spokesperson said on Monday.

Malaysian palm oil futures fell for a second straight session on Monday, tracking weakness in rival vegetable oils and a stronger ringgit, as market participants awaited new leads.