Brazil’s soybean market keeps heating up with the basis showing a regular daily increase as the old crop offer is being reduced due to the very negative origination margins. The issue is that this origin is well above FOB trading levels, making it very difficult for exporters to obtain stocks from farmers. Soybeans South American soybeans have been gradually heating up. The struggle between Chinese crushers and South American producers is showing that the latter are leading the trend this time. Farmer selling for beans is slow in all countries (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay), and origination margins are very negative. However, that is also clearly true for Chinese processors’ margins, although they need to continue crushing in thei...
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