Conab, Brazil’s crop agency, is due to publish its October grain survey today. Grain Central’s morning wire put the market’s expectation for the soybean crop at 181 million tonnes, against the USDA’s 186 million tonne estimate; the survey had not been published when this edition closed. Conab’s September survey put the 2025/26 grain harvest at a record 361.7 million tonnes, with soybeans at 180.4 million and corn at 144 million.
Battery system failures fell 98 percent over seven years, according to a report covered by Utility Dive, though older systems need special care, a finding that matters for how insurers and lenders price the storage buildout now underwriting renewable portfolios.
A Virginia hearing on the Dominion Energy and NextEra merger focused on rates and data centre load, Utility Dive reported, the regulatory argument that will decide whether the largest US utility combination is priced as a grid investment or a rate case.
Levi Strauss plans to use part of an 80 million dollar tariff refund for supply chain investment, Supply Chain Dive reported, one of the first named examples of a US importer recycling a refund into logistics rather than margin.
Nigeria met its OPEC quota for a fifth straight month in September, crude output of 1.53 million barrels a day, and Ghana’s October 16 pricing window opens with petrol down almost 2 percent and LPG up 18.5 percent; both were published here on October 14 and are not repeated.