While too early to know whether India’s oil meal exports are rebounding, domestic demand is growing, especially for de-oiled rice bran (DORB).That open market price has risen to $167/MT, impacting the biggest user and pricing of two major products. Oil Meal Exports Higher but Slowing Soymeal prices in India remain lower and have been stable since December 2016. This has helped soymeal exports, which reached 241,250 MT that month versus 97,750 MT in November 2016. Although they dropped to 155,160 MT in January 2017, that was still significantly higher than the 7,707 MT exported during the same month last year.Exports of all oil meals (soymeal, peanut meat, rapeseed mustard, rice bran extraction, etc.) totaled 301,556 MT in December 2016. D...
The corn and soy complex closed higher, with the wheat market mixed, as winter wheat closed up but spring wheat and livestock ended lower. Part of the strength for corn and soybeans may have been a weather premium, as crop planting has started out fast but warm weather has been slow to develop...
Reflect for a moment on what you eat. There is a lot of advice out there in the ether about what you should eat, but really, what do you currently eat and how much? The good people at the USDA have some data for you, to help you answer that question. USDA says that we eat quite a bit of meat. L...
WPI recently completed an expansion of our methodology for estimating and forecasting U.S. and global soybean crushing margins. The new approach incorporates the energy market’s expanding influence on the oilseed sector and the structural changes in global biofuel demand. This report is i...
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