Oilseeds Soymeal Inventory Up as Crushing Activity Increases With feed demand continuing to show solid improvement through the first full week of June, soybean crushers have steadily ramped up activity. Last week China’s estimated soymeal inventory had its largest gain this year, rising 95,200 MT (+14.9 percent) from the week prior to reach 736,100 MT as of 7 June 2019. However, it was down 321,800 MT (-30.4 percent) versus the same week one year ago. Regionally, there were sharp increases in the North (+105 percent), Shandong Province (+95.5 percent) and Guangxi Province (+51.7 percent). Interestingly, Guangxi Province, which is home to a number of poultry farms (including white feather and yellow feather chicken producers), is the...
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