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The warm, mostly dry weather led to deteriorating row crop and pasture conditions and put late-planted corn crops in northern areas - especially the northeast - at risk, MASS said. Soybean planting was 64 percent complete, with conditions rated 4 percent very poor, 10 percent poor, 36 percent fair, 43 percent good and 7 percent excellent. Corn conditions in the western two-thirds of the state remained steady from the previous week, but the three eastern districts declined significantly....

Exports are lowered 50 million bushels reflecting the lagging pace of export shipments even as export sales and outstanding balances indicate strong demand for old- crop supplies. Soybean production is projected at 2,625 million bushels, down 120 million bushels because harvested area reported in the June 29 Acreage report is 2.8 million acres below last month's projection. Exports for 2007/08 are raised 50 million bushels as reduced supplies in major exporting countries provide more...

Opinions expressed on this web site are those of the respective individuals and/or institutions and do not represent the opinions of etvFUTURES or its management. Traders say soybeans remain locked in a weather story and that should continue as we get into the key development stages of their growing period. Forecasts for hotter dryer conditions in the next week to 10 days helped support the market. The products also closed higher despite the CBOT raising its initial margin in soybean meal...

Since Chinese demand represents such a large share of the global market, especially in minerals and metals, the China Discount is now the gap between the price Western sellers offer for their commodities and what China agrees to pay. Its ancient uses were in the manufacture of glass, soap and crop fertilizers, and it is the last of these that predominates today, supplying one of the key nutrients for plant and crop growth. It represented the gap between what the little Western traders...