Tag: soybean

• Thursday, July 1st 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Soybean rise to US $ 532 a ton in Chicago

  

  The price of soybeans sprang back to above US $ 500 in the Chicago market Wednesday after a US $ 33.2 rise fueled by a new report on stocks and planting from the Department of Agriculture of the United States (USDA).

• Thursday, May 13th 2021 - 08:46 UTC

  Will Argentina squeeze exporters as soybeans rise above US $ 600 in Chicago?

  

  Argentine economists are eyeing the recent increase in the international price of soybeans as some sort of light at the end of the tunnel following a severe recession, high indebtedness amid the coronavirus pandemic.

• Saturday, April 10th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Paraguay grosses US $ 474 million in March for soybean exports

  

  According to a report from Paraguay's National Customs Directorate (DNA) released Friday, exports of soybean and its derivatives bounced back in March up to 1.1 million tons, worth US $ 474.4 million.

• Friday, March 5th 2021 - 08:25 UTC

  Brazilian soy exports in March should reach 15 million tons: 250 ships waiting to load

  

  Brazilian soy shipments this month should reach 15 million tons, which could establish a new record for a month, according to the maritime agency Cargonave, considering the 250 ships in the export line-up, a growth of more than 40% compared to the number seen in the same period last year.

• Tuesday, January 5th 2021 - 09:36 UTC

  Dry weather threatens southern Brazil and eastern Argentina

  

  Dry weather across some of the major producing regions in South America is putting upward pressure on corn and soybean prices at the start the new year. Dryness is expected to continue through the short term across southern Brazil and especially in the main-producing states in Argentina.

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentina's soy oil manufacturers and exporters unions' strike could end this week

  

  Argentina's influential chamber of soy oil manufacturers and exporters on Sunday improved an offer to striking workers, seeking to end a more than two-week standoff that has bogged down exports from one of the world's main breadbaskets.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Two weeks of industrial action in Argentina's soy crushers and export ports

  

  Soymeal manufacturers in Argentina presented late on Tuesday a proposal aimed at ending a two-week strike by oil and port workers unions that has thrown a wrench in the flow of agricultural exports from one of the world’s main bread baskets.

• Wednesday, December 16th 2020 - 09:08 UTC

  Food companies and grocers urge commodity suppliers to refuse soybeans from deforested areas in Brazil

  

  Some of the world’s largest food companies and grocers urged commodity suppliers including Archer-Daniels-Midland Co, Bunge Ltd, Cargill Inc and Louis Dreyfus Co. to stop trading soybeans associated with deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region, a savanna that is a hive of biodiversity and one of the country’s most important carbon sinks.

• Tuesday, November 10th 2020 - 11:44 UTC

  Brazil allows import of genetically modified soy and corn from United States

  

  Brazil has issued a protocol instruction legally authorizing imports of genetically modified (GM) soy and corn from the United States at a time when Brazil is dealing with low stocks and record prices for these products.

• Wednesday, October 28th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  China takes 51,4% more soybeans from Brazil than in September last year

  

  China imported 51,4% more Brazilian soy during September, than in the same month a year ago according to a release from the Chinese Customs on 25 October. Brazil exported 7.25 million tons of oilseed to China in September compared to 4.79 million tons in the same period in 2019, according to the agency.