Three countries are expected to reduce their soybean planted areas in favor of other crops, but another is forecast to increase its production of the oilseed. Argentina Reduces Estimate of 2017 Soybean Crop Argentina’s Ministry of Agriculture last week lowered its estimate for the 2017 soybean crop from 57 MMT to 55 MMT. This was based on a larger planted corn area at the expense of that planted to soybeans. USDA currently is estimating the Argentine soybean crop at 57.8 MMT. The ministry estimates Argentina produced 49.5 MMT of corn in 2017, up from its earlier forecast of 47.5 MMT.The move to a smaller soybean area and greater corn area is not surprising. Farmers had a substantial incentive to plant this way after President Macri elimi...
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...
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Weighing in on strategic realignment
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