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Major bulk commodities, as a share of total U.S. agricultural exports, have risen and fallen dramatically since 2020. Beyond short-term price volatilities that have largely driven these developments, changes to the largest overseas market and an increasingly competitive landscape also affect the prospect for major U.S. bulk exports.

The Black Sea region is a significant supplier of agricultural commodities to the world. Over the past year, global grain and oilseed markets have been roiled by the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine.

A number of factors have converged over the last 18 months to send global agricultural commodity prices to near-record levels. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – and the potential loss of Ukrainian exports – was the latest development to push commodity prices higher.

As part of its package of measures to reduce food prices adopted in December 2020, the Russian government issued a number of decrees to restrict exports of some grains and oilseeds...

Russian agriculture has been one of the fastest growing segments of the economy in recent years with gross output up 2.4 percent in 2017, as the Russian economy emerged from a two-year recession.

On July 3, 2016, Russia adopted FL 358-FZ, which prohibits the cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) plants and the breeding of genetically engineered animals in the territory of the Russian...

Restrictions on Purchasing Foreign Products for Government and Municipal Needs… Russia Lifts and Decreases Export Duties on Fish, Seafood, and Oilseeds…

February 15, 2016, VPSS will impose temporarily restrictions on corn and soybeans originating from the U.S. as a result of violations of international and Russian phytosanitary requirements.

New Orders of the Russian Government on Distribution of Federal Agricultural Subsidies to Provinces… VPSS Will Stop Some Imports of Soybean Meal … Grain Stocks in Russia Reach 28.6 Million Metric Tons