Soybeans Surpassed A Six-Year High On Strong Chinese Demand

Crop prices took another shot in the arm when the US government announced domestic inventories contracted amid expanding demand. How quickly could the agricultural commodity test $13?

January soybean futures climbed $0.04, or 0.32%, to $12.515 per bushel at 17:52 GMT on Tuesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Soybean prices are on course for a weekly increase of around 7%, continuing to their year-to-date pin of almost 31%.

As stated on Beijing’s leading state-owned grains trader COFCO, China got more than 100 million tons of soybeans in 2020, an all-time high.

Zhou Jishuai, deputy general manager of the hedging and trading department of COFCO Oils and Oilseeds, announced a discussion in Guangzhou that the globe’s most enormous soybean user mashed 92.6 million tons of the bean this year.

The ballooning demand’s goal is two-fold: China restores the nation’s pig herd after the African swine flu that disrupted supplies.

The central government is adhering to the terms inside the US-China phase-one trade deal.

He also expected that soybean demand would endure strong head into the first quarter of 2021.

Russia will be demanding an export tax on soybeans

In its new December Supply/Demand and Crop Production Reports, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that domestic inventories of soybeans are going low because of rising foreign demand. Ending stocks are predicted to be 175 million bushels below to about 1.69 billion bushels.

After requiring a duty on wheat exports, the Russian government states that it would be demanding an export tax on soybeans. The idea is to rein in developing food prices and secure domestic stocks. The difficulty, though, is that farmers are likely to produce less. Plus, output levels between farmers in the country’s eastern region would slip and damage Chinese neighbors’ shipments.

In different agricultural commodities, January corn futures totaled $0.025, or 0.57%, to $4.425 per pound. Whereas January wheat futures hit up $0.0475, or 0.78%, to $6.16 a bushel. March coffee futures ended down $0.0025, or 0.2%, to $1.2445 per pound.