Argentina remains active in the new crop soybean market. Its last trade was performed yesterday at $0.96 SN CNF for June shipment, and offers keep going lower despite the CBOT’s recent decline. Separately, Brazil’s best bet for exports is certainly from February onward. Soybeans Consistent with the trend of the past few weeks as well as months, soybean demand is isolated to spot positions. Buyers are checking levels for November, December and, in some cases, January. Gross crush margins in China have fallen to near $10/MT, reducing the purchase interest from that country’s crushers.U.S. October soybean exports were a record-high 10.5 MMT as the weather was perfect for shipping and ports worked nonstop the entire month. In addition, foreig...
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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