Chicago soya slump hits oilseeds


By FWi staff


SHARP price losses on the Chicago soya futures markets last week have led to a drop in the international oil and oilseed market.


Improved weather forecasts – more rain – and advancing US planting progress put pressure on European markets, with MATIF rapeseed losing Euro4.50.


The stronger Euro against the US Dollar for most of the week contributed to the European price slide, while unofficial reports of a Chinese purchase of 100,000 tonnes of EU rapeseed for July and August delivery lent some support.


These factors mean that new-crop UK rapeseed prices remained firm.


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