The average producer’s prices for soymeal and soyoil increased RMB 3/MT ($0.44/MT) to RMB 2,710/MT ($400.3/MT) and RMB 114/MT ($16.84/MT) to RMB 5,909/MT ($872.82/MT), respectively. However, that did not have a positive impact on crushers' margins.
Oilseeds Soymeal Inventories Climb Again as Demand Weakens A combination of uncertainty about downstream demand and the steady influx of imported soybean shipments pushed soymeal inventories higher once again. As of 23 June, the country’s estimated total was 1,202,400 MT, up 83,300 MT (+7.4 percent) from the previous week and 563,200 MT higher (+88.1 percent) than one year ago. At the regional level, most of the increase occurred in the east where estimated soymeal invent...
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...
