
DTN analyst Todd Hultman reports that since May 12 highs, the National Soybean Index has fallen over $3 per bushel and July soybean meal is down over $100 a short ton. He describes demand for soybeans and meal vanishing over the past six weeks after USDA had kept ending stocks tight.
A sharp drop in cash bids and meal futures reduces feed protein costs for buyers, while signaling that demand destruction has shifted the soybean complex from bullish to bearish.
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