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market update No. 34-2025 Chinese sultanas
2025-08-05 | Business travel report: Background information about old and new crop sultanas
Recently, we returned from an 8-day trip through the sultanas production hotspot, Shandong province. We have conducted three different on-site inspections and met three different shippers. Our last on-site visit to a Chinese sultana growing area was in 2013, located in Turpan, Xinjiang province.
market update No. 32-2025 Bulgarian new crop sunflowers
2025-07-21 | Bleak new crop Bulgarian sunflower prospects
The vegetation index for North Bulgaria is equal to last year's crop of only 1.6 million MT, while it is below last year's in Northeast and Northwest Bulgaria.
market-update No. 31-2025 Bulgarian new crop sunflower kernels
2025-07-18 | The new crop 2025 Bulgarian sunflower production is supposed to decline by 25 %
The European Union farmers' organization Copa-Cogeca released its sunflower production forecasts on July 9, 2025.
market update No. 31-2025 Bulgarian sunflower seed kernels new crop 2025
2025-07-010 | Bleak prospects for new crop Eastern European sunflower seeds (Black Sea Region)
The new crop forecast is poor. The sunflower traders had assumed a favorable new crop outlook, with increased planting acres, until two weeks ago.
market update No. 30-2025 Chinese pumpkin seed kernels-travel report
2025-07-09 | Business travel report: Background information about old and new crop pumpkin seed kernels
Recently, we returned from an 8-day trip through the pumpkin hotspots in Inner Mongolia and Gansu. We have conducted six different on-site inspections and met six different shippers. Our last on-site visit was in 2019, and we have seen a tremendous technological improvement.