Ukraine, the EU and Russia are the key global producers of sunflower meal, with Ukraine supplying nearly 65% of global demand. The article notes growing Chinese interest in sunflower meal and that Ukrainian shipments to China were enabled by 2017 sanitary protocols and authorizations for seven producers.
Growing Chinese demand for Ukrainian sunflower meal could shift export flows and add competition for soybean meal in feed markets, though the article describes a longer-term possibility rather than an immediate price shock.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
After 224 past neutral trade events, Soybean Meal moved a median -0.2% over 5 sessions (43% higher; middle half -1.7% to +1.2%), and -0.2% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.