USDA Cuts Forecast for U.S. Soybean Exports Again and Revises Other Estimates Today USDA unsurprisingly further reduced its forecast for U.S. soybean exports in 2017/18 by an additional 60 million bushels (1.633 MMT) to 2.1 billion bushels (57.16 MMT). With no other changes, the result was a 60-million-bushel increase in ending stocks to 530 million bushels (14.43 MMT), which equals a stocks-to-use ratio of 12.5 percent. USDA raised Brazil’s soybean crop by 2 MMT to 112 MMT and reduced Argentina’s from 56 MMT to 54 MMT. Considering private forecasters are now estimating the latter crop at 50-51 MMT, it can be argued that USDA was slightly too conservative in not lowering it even more. It made relatively few other revisions to...
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