Brazilian corn exports amounted to 3.59 million tonnes in January, down by 26.3% from the same month last year. Meanwhile, soybean shipments fell by 62.4% to 1.07 million tonnes, according to customs weekly data on Monday, February 10. In January last year, Brazil exported 4.87 million tonnes of corn and 2.85 million tonnes of soybeans. […]

US processors crush a new all-time record high of 218 million bushels of soybeans

Soybean oil futures slightly declined amid market uncertainty driven by confusion over US biofuels policy, executive orders, and legal challenges.

Investors in the US corn and soybean markets trimmed shorts while amassing longs in the week to Tuesday January 14, pushing the corn net long to the highest-level since May 2022 and moving soybeans from a net short to a net long for the first time in more than a year, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed late on Friday January 17.

Fastmarkets has corrected its AG-SYB-0078 Crush Margin China Soy (Brazil) M1 Yuan/mt; AG-SYB-0079 Crush Margin China Soy (US Gulf) M1 Yuan/mt; and AG-SYB-0082 Crush Margin US Soy M1 c$/bu for the period between December 2-13, 2024, which were published incorrectly due to a procedure lapse error. Fastmarkets has also corrected its AG-SYB-0078 Crush Margin China Soy (Brazil) M1 Yuan/mt and AG-SYB-0079 Crush Margin China Soy (US Gulf) M1 Yuan/mt for November 20 and November 29, 2024, which were published incorrectly due to a typo.

The recently concluded EU-Mercosur free-trade agreement, after 25 years of negotiation, is expected to have limited immediate impact on South American agricultural exports to Europe.

Fastmarkets has corrected its AG-SYB-0081 Crush Margin Argentina Soy, which was published incorrectly on Wednesday November 13.

Argentina’s soybean sowing area estimate for the 2024-25 crop was raised by 0.6%, to 17.9 million hectares, while the wheat output was projected at 17.6 million tonnes, the country's Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (SagyP) monthly report showed on Thursday November 21.

The USDA's latest report shows that the US corn and soybean harvests have exceeded market expectations

A soybean oil price outlook, which analyzes key drivers of demand and trade shaping soybean oil price and production trends