MARKET SIGNALS TO WATCH, October 20 – 27

UkrAgroConsult shares key highlights from Weekly Grain & Oilseed Reports (October 20 – 27, 2025).

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Black Sea & Danube region:

• Niche is no longer niche; without standard quality and friendly logistics, premiums vanish fast while costs don’t
• UkrAgroConsult estimates that demand for Romanian barley is even higher than for milling wheat
• russian 2025 wheat crop estimation raised to 88 M mt
• Black Sea-Danube-Balkan: corn stays price-taker vs Brazil/US
• Where Black Sea corn flow thins, Brazil/US fill the gap
• In Nov, Black Sea-Danube sunflower will be supported by slow harvest and active crush demand
• Farmers are talking about cutting sunflower areas in 2026 because margins are volatile and weather risk is growing
• In Bulgaria rapeseed crushing increases even as the harvest falls
• Rapeseed is becoming an energy driven first, ag market second

Ukraine:

• Farmers’ corn selling is slower after heavy barley and rapeseed sales, they can wait
• Local demand for barley increased prices CPT Ukrainian ports
• Season of 2025/26 will be the worst year for sunflowers in many years
• SFS harvest forecasts are decreasing and the SFO price is rising
• Rains improved winter rapeseed conditions in Ukraine

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