Production
Economist Provides Insight on U.S. Soybean Planting Report
The Prospective Plantings report provides the first official, survey-based estimates of U.S. farmers' 2018 planting…
Demand
Long-Term World Soybean Outlook
Doane’s economists recently updated the International Agriculture Outlook report, which includes ten-year forecasts of harvested area, yield, production, utilization, per capita consumption and net trade…
Transportation
IMO 2020 Regulation Could Increase Diesel Cost
For agriculture, fuel cost is extremely important because it factors into the farming operation’s profit as a direct cost, derived cost, and transportation cost. The…
Market Access
U.S. Soy Works with Global Partners to Access Innovations and Markets
U.S. Soybean Farmers Address Common Challenges by Joining Global Oilseed Producers Farmers face pressures to reduce input costs, fight herbicide and fungicide resistance, and continuously…
Demand
FAS Post Sees Steady Soybean Imports Despite Rising Chinese Hog Margins
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Post in Beijing issued its latest Oilseeds and Products Update in late October. In the…
Infrastructure
Brazil Southern Ports Improving to Meet Northern Arc Challenge
The northern arc of ports is allowing Brazil to increase its grain export capacity without the traditional long delays in getting the grain to the…
U.S. Soy Global Trade Exchange
Buffers, U.S.A. Finds Value in U.S. Soy Global Trade Exchange
Buffers, U.S.A. is a company that provides solutions to eliminate moisture and condensation during the shipping and receiving process. Jeanine Luthra says that through attending…
Planting
Brazilian Farmers Weigh Trade, Weather Ahead of Planting Season
As the U.S. market focuses on the weather as soybeans move into the final development stages of growth, Brazilian farmers are eyeing key factors that…
Planting
Argentine Farmers Mull Politics, Weather Ahead of Planting Season
While early soybean plantings have already begun in Brazil, farmers in Argentina face a later start as it is further from the equator and thus…
Exports
Brazil Northern Arc Exports Changing the Electrical Grid
Nowhere is the impact of increasing Brazil soybean exports felt more than the “Northern Arc.” Brazil is the largest soybean exporter and second largest corn…
Crushers
U.S. Soybean Crushings Steady in August
The National Oilseed Processor Association (NOPA) issued August soybean crush and stocks data on Monday, September 16. According to the data, NOPA member soybean processing…
Marketplace
India Poised for Lower Oilseed Output in 2019/20
India’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) attaché office issued its Oilseeds and Products Update at the end of August. In the report, the Post trimmed its…
Yield
Statistics Canada Sees Lower Canadian Oilseed Output
Statistics Canada released updated 2019 Canadian crop production estimates on Wednesday, August 28. In the release, the agency saw lower than expected soybean and canola…
Infrastructure
Soybean Barge Movements Slow
2019 has been a tough year for the barge industry and all producers of commodities that use the Inland Mississippi Waterways System. After Lock and…
Exports
Changes in Soy Import and Consumption Data by Geographic Regions
Periodically, it is worthwhile to take a look at changes in soybean and soymeal trade and consumption changes by geographic regions, rather than specific country…
Exports
Brazil Rail Projects Impacting Soybean Exports
Like the U.S., Brazil’s public roads and waterways are publicly funded. Unlike the U.S. where railroads fund much of its own track improvements, Brazil railroads…
Infrastructure
Barge Rates Muted
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), “the U.S. Inland Waterway System utilizes a percent of tariff system to establish…