The domestic and export soybean basis remain strong and, in fact, have been strengthening throughout this harvest. There are several reasons:

The old crop pipeline was empty. New crop demand has been very strong, especially to China that has more than 16 MMT already on the books. The soybean crop was planted late and pushed back the harvest period, aggravating the tight old crop situation. The harvest so far has been very strung out, partially because of the very wide spread in crop planting date as well as the vagaries in the weather. There still hasn't been a hard freeze anywhere, and a lot of rain has fallen across the northern Plains in the past week that has stalled harvest. Farmers have been reluctant sellers. The market ent...