# The price of sunflower under pressure to reduce production

> USDA raised its Black Sea rapeseed forecast for 2017/18 while lowering soybean and sunflower estimates. Ukraine's sunflower forecast was cut by 500,000 tons to 13 million tons, and the Black Sea region is expected to harvest 26.9 million tons of sunflower seed. Processors are raising crush-side prices to secure raw material.

- Date: 2017-11-14 · published 2017-11-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region Black Sea · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/68102-the-price-of-sunflower-under-pressure-to-reduce-production
- Commodities: [Sunflower Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SUNMEAL.md)

## Why it matters

Tighter sunflower seed supply in Ukraine supports higher sunflower meal and oil costs, though the gap between USDA and local estimates adds uncertainty.

## Read by commodity

- SUNMEAL: bullish ▲

## Sources

- graintrade.com.ua: https://graintrade.com.ua/en/novosti/tcini-na-sonyashnik-pid-tiskom-skorochennya-virobnitctva.html

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