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Brian Grete with CommStock Investments says he thinks the price action on Friday is sending a strong signal about the soybean market direction.
Scott Varilek with Kooima Kooima Varilek says after crashing Thursday on fears of a beef plant strike, cattle are recovering on higher cash.
DuWayne Bosse with Bolt Marketing says the soybean market is still trying to price in the possibility of China buying another 300 million bu. of soybeans this marketing year.
Randy Martinson with Martinson Ag says, “This is, you know, basically 8 million metric ton or roughly 294 million bushels of added soybean demand that we were not expecting.”
Traders want proof from China of the potential soybean buys according to Joe Vaclavik of Standard Grain.
Grains markets ended higher across the complex, driven mostly by money flow according to Dave Chatterton with Strategic Farm Marketing.
Jamie Gieseke with Paradigm Futures says soybeans were also getting a push from South American weather, with wheat adding risk premium on U.S. weather concerns.
China has resumed its purchases of Canadian canola, an early sign of a revival in the trade
Soybeans and soybean oil saw a higher day on Tuesday driven by hopes President Trump would make a biofuels policy announcement regarding 45Z or the RVO proposal while speaking in Iowa after the market close says Naomi Blohm with Total Farm Marketing.
Soybeans and bean oil were slightly higher on Tuesday morning with hopes President Trump may make an announcement or at least talk positive about the 45Z program according to Mark Schultz with Northstar Commodity.