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market update No. 32-2025 Bulgarian new crop sunflowers

2025-07-21 | Bleak new crop Bulgarian sunflower prospects 

The vegetation index for North Bulgaria is equal to last year's crop of only 1.6 million MT, while it is below last year's in Northeast and Northwest Bulgaria.


market-update No. 31-2025 Bulgarian new crop sunflower kernels

2025-07-18 | The new crop 2025 Bulgarian sunflower production is supposed to decline by 25 % 

The European Union farmers' organization Copa-Cogeca released its sunflower production forecasts on July 9, 2025.


market update No. 31-2025 Bulgarian sunflower seed kernels new crop 2025

2025-07-010 | Bleak prospects for new crop Eastern European sunflower seeds (Black Sea Region) 

The new crop forecast is poor. The sunflower traders had assumed a favorable new crop outlook, with increased planting acres, until two weeks ago.


market update No. 30-2025 Chinese pumpkin seed kernels-travel report

2025-07-09 | Business travel report: Background information about old and new crop pumpkin seed kernels 

Recently, we returned from an 8-day trip through the pumpkin hotspots in Inner Mongolia and Gansu. We have conducted six different on-site inspections and met six different shippers. Our last on-site visit was in 2019, and we have seen a tremendous technological improvement.


market update No. 28-2025 Bulgarian sunflowers new crop 2025

2025-06-25 | Bulgaria in red: 8 independent weather institutes forecast a severe drought and hot summer for South East Europe 

According to the report from the Global Drought Observatory (GDO) by the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS), released last Friday, Bulgaria is experiencing a severe drought, with no rain for the past 50 days.