The Market Today’s USDA WASDE report should drive discussion, but it was mostly neutral. The 20-day moving average has begun to rise and November soybeans hit 1031 less than a week ago, lending hope for bulls that it can break 1050/bushel resistance. But the stocks-to-use ratio remains at its second highest historically, and so it will require substantially more Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans, which are at a 90₵/bushel discount to Brazil.
Soyoil cash basis is down as end buyers appear covered. Petroleum prices have been falling but rallied today as the EIA cites increased U.S. demand that could lift crude prices back above $80/barrel.
USDA’s Crop Progress report this week was unremarkable except that 65 percen...
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...
