Bob Stark, agricultural economics professor emeritus with the University of Arkansas’ School of Agriculture and Southeast Research & Extension Center, Monticello, and Jeremy Ross, professor and Extension soybean agronomist, Little Rock, review the trading week in Arkansas ending Dec. 17, 2021.
They look at the cash market and forward pricing quotes from selected markets as reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service in Arkansas.
The Arkansas 2021 Crop Soybean Cash Market suffered a major loss over the past weekend, but recovered much the loss on Tuesday and continued higher with gains on each of the remaining days to finish the trading week with a double digit overall gain.
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See the special report on 2022 crop booking for both corn and soybeans. It includes a past week’s description for each crop plus monthly price summaries over October-November for corn and November for soybean. 2022 Crop booking quotes began on Oct. 21 for corn and Nov. 15 for soybean.
Market average prices stated in this report are unweighted averages of the state markets surveyed by USDA-AMS. Price data was based on USDA LR GR111 Arkansas Daily Grain Reports.