The Market The May soybean contract experienced its lowest close of 2023 today. At 1476.5, it is now below the 100-day moving average. With a record number of speculative longs pouring into May soymeal futures, it was vulnerable to a pullback and that is what happened this week. It lost $19.90/ST. May soyoil held onto a net gain this week of .85 cents and is valued at 57.46/pound, but some believe it will climb further. There are always diverse viewpoints but it is particularly true this time of year.
The CFTC again delayed its usual Friday issuance of the Commitment of Traders report. However, noncommercial speculators remained net long in soybeans as of 7 March. Noncommercial net-longs in soymeal were record large, which likely...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...