Brazil’s soybean market keeps heating up with the basis showing a regular daily increase as the old crop offer is being reduced due to the very negative origination margins. The issue is that this origin is well above FOB trading levels, making it very difficult for exporters to obtain stocks from farmers. Soybeans South American soybeans have been gradually heating up. The struggle between Chinese crushers and South American producers is showing that the latter are leading the trend this time. Farmer selling for beans is slow in all countries (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay), and origination margins are very negative. However, that is also clearly true for Chinese processors’ margins, although they need to continue crushing in thei...
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...
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