GOOD MORNING, Prices are mixed this morning, lower wheat and higher elsewhere. Outside markets are sharply higher with US stocks up over 600 pts, indicating we see a "risk-on" day of trade. Beans are higher as the market finds end-user buying after China suggested that they intend to increase the purchase of Ag goods. The purchase of beans by China could be in part for crushers, and in part for reserves, and estimates are that they may need as much as 23-28 mmt for the Sep. time period until Brazil's harvest takes place in 2021. It was reported in a story by Reuters that China's Ministry urged food companies to boost supplies on fears of further Covid-19 disruption. The article went on to say that both...
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