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Ukrainian agribusiness Kernel has suspended operations at all eight of its oilseed processing plants and stopped buying sunflower seed after Russian drone strikes damaged production buildings, equipment and storage tanks. The company called the shutdown temporary, citing fire risk from continuous oil extraction, and says it will keep shipping products from warehouse inventories.
Losing crushing capacity from Ukraine's largest sunflower oil producer removes a major share of world sunflower oil and meal supply, and weaker seed demand pressures farm prices while sunflower meal and oil firm.
feedandgrain.comFeed, Grain StaffNov 13, 2026| AFFECTS | 1d | 5d | 20d |
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| Sunflower Meal▲bullish | — | — | — |
| Soybean Oil▲bullish | +0.1% | — | — |
After 110 past bullish geopolitics events, Soybean Oil moved a median +1.8% over 5 sessions (65% higher; middle half -0.7% to +3.6%), and -0.4% 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.
