The average domestic corn price in China retreated even further in the first week of December, dropping RMB 11/MT ($1.60/MT) to RMB 1,689/MT ($245.50/MT) as farmers stepped up the pace of selling new crop. On the processing side, however, cornstarch and ethanol prices did not follow that trend.
Oilseeds Updated Soymeal Inventories Show Significant Decrease After a week of delays, data for the final week of November was released. The update shows a significant decrease in China’s estimated nationwide soymeal inventory after two consecutive weeks of minor upticks. The total fell 180,200 MT (-30.54 percent) from 18 November to 409,800 MT on 28 November, down 942,700 MT (-69.7 percent) from one year ago. In the north, Sh...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...