Indian coffee exports Jan 1-May 30.

The Coffee Board of India has finalised its crop estimate for 2015-16 at a record-high of 348,000 tonne, up from 327,000 tonne produced a year ago, but down from previous estimate of 350,000 tonne. The board has estimated the output for 2016-17 at 316,700 MT tonne, down 9% on year.

India Government wheat procurement grows 30% to reach 30 MT.

Wheat purchase has been close to 30 million tonne (MT) which is 6.8 MT more than the volume of grain purchased during the same period previous year. Punjab (11.6 MT), Haryana (7.4 MT) and Madhya Pradesh (6.7 MT) have purchased a major chunk of wheat since the procurement operations began on April 1. Only in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan the procurement operations are still going on while in the rest of key growing states, procurement operations have been completed.

Egypt GASC tender $191.46/T for Romanian wheat.

The lowest offer at Egypt state grain buyer GASC tender was $191.46 per tonne free-on-board for 60,000 tonnes of Romanian wheat. Trading company ADM made the lowest offer on a cost & freight basis for 60,000 tonnes of Romanian wheat at $201.56 per tonne. GASC is seeking an unspecified amount of wheat from global suppliers for July 1-10 shipment.

April Russian wheat exports to Turkey were lowest since February 2015.

Russia continued exporting wheat at a record pace in April 2017, when it supplied 1.96 MMT to foreign markets. This is 24% more than exported in April 2016 (1.58 MMT). This season wheat exports from Russia have totaled 23.77 MMT that is up 6% year-on-year. Shipments to Turkey shrank noticeably in April: their monthly total dropped to a season-low of 58 KMT. This is the smallest delivery since February 2015 (54 KMT).

USDA Wheat Crop progress.

Indicating that 80% of the US winter wheat crop was headed. Individual state data showed TX was 22% harvested, vs. the average of 15% for this date. Winter wheat conditions were down 2% g/e to 50%, but only lost 1 point on the Brugler500 index to 340. Spring wheat is 96% planted and 79% is emerged, with both now ahead of their 5-year averages but behind last year. The crop is rated 62% g/e, vs. last year at 79%.