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Oilseed Highlights

Argentine farm organizations yesterday asked soy exporters to stop inspecting cargoes for bootleg biotech soybean events. The exporting firms have been doing so on behalf of Monsanto, but farmers insist that there is only one entity that should be conducting inspections. NOPA's Record March Soybean Crush Volume Yesterday's National Oilseed Processors Association (NOPA) March soybean crush report was a bit of a surprise to the market at 162.822 million bushels. This was a record for that month and the fourth-highest for any month in history. It was 5.8 percent greater than the volume crushed in March 2014. Seven analysts surveyed by Reuters had an average estimate of 155.261 million bushels with the highest at 159.5 million bushels. Obviou...

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