Brazil’s New-Crop Soybean Export Commitments Lagging Pace to Meet USDA’s Projection, …, But We Are Only 1-Week Into the Marketing Year.

Bottom Line:   Last week, Brazil shipped 1.05 MMT of soybeans.  That’s more than the previous week’s 445,000 MT and above last year’s 770,000 MT. In comparison, the US shipped 1.319 MMT while Argentina shipped none.  Brazil’s “new-crop” export commitments increased by 1.64 MMT last week. New-crop commitments are now 8.25 MMT, down 8.9% from last year. In the…

Next Week’s Soybean Inspections Could Be Unchanged at 1.3 MMT. Hard to Tally Soybean Lineup Due to Record Number of Un-Assigned Vessels

Bottom Line:  Our point estimate for next week’s export inspections is 1.3 MMT (48 Mil Bu).   If this is correct, that would be unchanged from last week.  This week’s ship lineup is 1.905 MMT.  That is down 17% from last week and above last year’s 1.631 MMT.  There were 31 vessels to-be-nominated (TBN).  That is a record for this year, 6 more than last week, and…