Purchase prices for grains in Ukraine on August 12, 2025

Sunflower prices in Ukraine have risen sharply amid a shortage of sunflower oil supply on the domestic market, as well as information about very low yields in the fields of the southern regions, where sunflower harvesting has already begun.

Palm oil quotes have risen without responding to rising production and inventories in Malaysia and Indonesia, so we can expect some price pullback in September.

Trump postponed tariffs on goods from China and called on China to resume purchases of American soybeans, which provided speculative support for soybean quotes, but China continues to pressure the US, so it will start buying soybeans when prices fall again.

In the wheat market in Ukraine, demand for food wheat and discounts on feed and substandard wheat are increasing, while quotes on world exchanges remain unchanged in anticipation of the harvest results in the northern hemisphere.