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China Continues To Snap Up U.S. Beans

China's appetite for U.S. soybeans clearly remains strong....

Selling Spring Rallies 

BY RICHARD BROCK

After this year, everyone will have become accustomed to volatile price activity. But it's seldom that two years in a row are alike. Unfortunately, human...

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Brazil Soy Planting Two-Thirds Done

Brazil's soybean producers had planted 66% of their expected crop acreage by last Friday, slightly behind historical levels, according to Brazilian marketing consultant Safras e Mercado....

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ProdiGene To Buy Tainted Soybeans

The biotech firm ProdiGene Inc. indicated to USDA last week that it would buy 500,000 bu of soybeans that were contaminated with residue from genetically modified corn it was testing in Nebraska....

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Attache Boosts Argentine Soy Estimate

The U.S. agricultural attache in Buenos Aires has raised his forecast for Argentina’s 2002-2003 soybean crop by another 4.8%....

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Brazil Resumes U.S. Wheat Imports

Brazil will resume imports of U.S. wheat on Friday following guarantees that supplies will respect sanitary rules, the Agriculture Ministry said....

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Safras Raises Brazil Soy Crop Estimate

The private Brazilian agricultural consultant Safras & Mercados on Friday raised its estimate of Brazil's 2002-2003 soybean crop by 3% to 49.7 million metric tons....

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Brazil Soy Planting 2% Done

Brazil's soybean planting season is off to a slow start compared with last year, but early progress is in line with the five-year average, according to the private crop consultant Safras & Mercados

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Soybean Crop Unchanged, Corn Up

Last friday’s USDA reports did not contain any huge surprises for the corn or soybean markets....

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Midwest Harvest Advances Slowly

Monday's weekly crop update from USDA confirmed that U.S. corn and soybean harvest advanced slowly last week due to wet weather in the western Corn Belt and the Mississippi River Delta.

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