USA sold 163.6 thousand tons of the 2022/23 soybean meal crop this week

By Gabriela Brumatti, with information from Dow Jones Newswires São Paulo, 08/03/2023 - United States exporters sold 163,600 tons of soybean meal from the 2022/23 harvest in the week ended July 27, the country's Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced this Thursday. . The volume represents an increase of 2% compared to the previous week and 3% compared to the average of the previous four weeks. The main buyers were the Philippines (44.4 thousand t), Colombia (27.9 thousand t), Venezuela (20.7 thousand t), Canada (16.6 thousand t) and Ireland (14.8 thousand t), which offset cancellations made by undisclosed destinations (9.8 thousand t), Costa Rica (6 thousand t) and El Salvador (4.1 thousand t). For 2023/24, 183.3 thousand tons were sold to the Dominican Republic (51.3 thousand t), undisclosed destinations (45.6 thousand t), Philippines (42 thousand t), Honduras (24.3 thousand t) and Canada (9.1 thousand t). The total volume sold, of 346.9 thousand tons, was within analysts' ...