The political mood of the transportation and port industries might play a bigger role in the soybean supply and demand situation than record crop production and supplies.WPI and others have written often in recent weeks about the resiliency of the soybean market in the face of a record world production that will also lead to a record buildup in world soybean supplies. The unexpected strength in soybeans and soybean prices has been the result of many things including:
Record demand from China. It seems that USDA and every other analyst continues to underestimate the country's demand for protein. A slower pace of China's economy, poor domestic crush margins and a host of other excuses that are supposed to explain why demand growth should a...
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