Led by cereals, vegetable oils, and dairy, all FAO food price subindexes were up in September. Though gains were modest, the aggregate Food Price Index (FPI) still rose over 1 percent from August. (All values are adjusted for inflation.) The FPI showed monthly gains [...]
Futures activity Nov-21 soybean futures came under extreme pressure after Thursday’s Grain Stocks report, settling the week at $12.4650 per bushel, down 41 cents per pound from Monday. Soybean meal futures also took a hit as the Dec-21 contract closed last week lower by [...]
Adjusted for inflation, FAO’s Food Price Index (FPI) rebounded strongly in August after slight declines in June and July. These two down months, however, followed a full year of monthly gains. Source: FAO Among the subindexes, sugar saw the most significant gains in August. [...]
NOPA members crushed 158.8 million bushels of soybeans last month, higher than estimates ahead of today’s report by about 4.5 million bushels. NOPA's cumulative crush for the 2020/21 Sep-Aug soybean marketing year ended at 2.02 billion bushels, meaning total U.S. crush was likely around [...]
Futures activity Spot soybean oil futures also moved off five-month lows from $0.5578 cents per pound to $0.5629 per pound as of close Friday. Prices this time last year were near 35 cents per pound. S&D and fundamental factors August NOPA soybean crush came [...]
Commodity inflation has been challenging enough over the past year, but supply chain issues have multiplied the increase through higher direct costs as well as premiums associated with receiving the product on time. Sourcing U.S.-produced goods may help to soften the impact, but even [...]
U.S. edible oils processors increased consumption of refined palm and palm kernel oils starting in June 2020, around the time that use of soybean oil for biofuels shot up. Between June 2020 and June 2021, processors removed 3.0 billion pounds of refined palm oil [...]
The average price of CBD isolate in the U.S. has weakened since early June and is now at the lowest levels since reporting began in 2019. This occurred despite licensed hemp acreage more than 80 percent below 2019 levels, per Hemp Benchmarks. In early August, [...]
