# Ukraine and Russia to strengthen the competition on sunflower meal market in the new season – Atria Brokers

> Atria Brokers' Vladimir Dvinskiy said the 2020/21 sunflower and soybean meal market could be tight, with record global supply. Ukraine and Russia are expected to compete more intensely in sunflower meal, especially in Turkey, Europe and Belarus, and Russia has begun pilot shipments to China.

- Date: 2020-07-03 · published 2020-07-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region Black Sea · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/52210-ukraine-and-russia-to-strengthen-the-competition-on-sunflower-meal-market-in
- Commodities: [Sunflower Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SUNMEAL.md), [Soybean Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBM.md)

## Why it matters

Record sunflower crops in Ukraine and Russia point to ample sunflower meal supply, which tends to pressure meal prices and competes with soybean meal in feed rations.

## Read by commodity

- SBM: bearish ▼
- SUNMEAL: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SBM | 2018-08-14 | [Ukraine may supply 1 mln tons of sunflower meal to China — Latifundist.com](https://feedsoft.ai/events/63643-ukraine-may-supply-1-mln-tons-of-sunflower-meal-to-china-latifundist-com.md) | +0.1% | -4.1% |
| SBM | 2018-12-28 | [Ukraine exported a record volume of sunflower meal to China — Latifundist.com](https://feedsoft.ai/events/61677-ukraine-exported-a-record-volume-of-sunflower-meal-to-china-latifundist-com.md) | +3.7% | +2.7% |
| SBM | 2026-02-17 | [China reduced demand for Ukrainian sunflower meal ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations](https://feedsoft.ai/events/20714-china-reduced-demand-for-ukrainian-sunflower-meal-ahead-of-lunar-new-year.md) | +1.8% | +2.9% |
| SBM | 2019-09-05 | [China allows imports of soybean meal, rapeseed meal, sunflower meal and sugar beet pulp from Russia](https://feedsoft.ai/events/57185-china-allows-imports-of-soybean-meal-rapeseed-meal-sunflower-meal-and-sugar.md) | -0.9% | +2.8% |
| SBM | 2024-03-07 | [EU increases imports of sunflower and rapeseed meal](https://feedsoft.ai/events/31332-eu-increases-imports-of-sunflower-and-rapeseed-meal.md) | -0.8% | -1.9% |

## Sources

- apk-inform.com: https://www.apk-inform.com/en/news/1512225

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