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Weekly Commodity Analysis:  Topic: Soybeans   Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5

Fundamentals: Stocks rose this week as farmers sell out some on farm storage.  The Stocks  are much larger then last year as exports picked up this week last year.  US and World stocks are large and will likely be a record this next harvest.  But, as you can see the world is using as much as we can produce. World population and the new innovations created by the scientists, have a direct impact on need vs greed.

The higher price of wheat corn and other direct impact markets will be the 2007 battle zone.  Drought, rust and pestilence takes a back burner to the global usage. Bio products have taken a back seat to ethanol this year. Iowa will be a using 51% of its average corn yield next year for feed and ethanol this leaves little room for error. As ethanol stocks climb Bio products will be the next focus.   NEXT

Soybeans Input
7/11/2006 7/4/2006 6/27/2006 6/20/2006 6/13/2006 6/6/2006 5/30/2006 5/23/2006 5/16/2006
Atlantic coast 278 210 195 1,192 1,151 1,148 1,147 918 771
Toledo na na na na na na na na na
Buffalo-Toledo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chicago 5,359 5,971 6,033 5,979 6,252 6,228 6,276 6,143 6,113
Duluth na na na na na na na na na
Minneapolis na na na na na na na na na
St Louis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sioux City na na na na na na na na na
Omaha 3 3 10 25 28 22 21 21 18
Atchison 380 447 621 621 600 666 612 593 578
St Joseph 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kansas City 1,492 1,500 1,548 1,716 1,779 1,876 1,874 1,949 2,090
Fort Worth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Texas High Plains 242 242 242 242 242 242 242 242 246
Enid na na na na na na na na na
S Mississippi Gulf 1,410 1,174 1,759 1,669 2,258 4,274 1,769 1,769 1,512
Texas Gulf 459 375 371 371 0 0 0 0 0
Wichita 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Topeka/Salina 1,623 1,600 1,623 1,631 1,624 1,623 1,621 1,521 1,523
Hutchinson 355 364 433 456 451 448 440 439 834
Hastings Grand Island 1,713 1,775 1,927 2,108 2,226 2,654 2,782 2,418 2,465
Lincoln na na na na na na na na na
Pacific Northwest 1,363 935 2,062 1,231 1,389 1,274 1,075 733 944
Total US 14,677 14,596 16,824 17,241 18,000 20,455 17,859 16,746 17,094
Year ago 8,478 11,532 11,108 10,624 11,659 12,130 14,387 14,541 12,773