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1. Soymeal Real Deal

By Howard Simons
1:20 p.m. EDT

I mentioned yesterday how the USDA crop estimates underscore the ongoing rally in corn and soybeans. Today old crop soymeal is limit-up, with its price having gone from just over $250 per ton in early March to $433 per ton today.

Soymeal shows up everywhere in your kitchen, whether as a direct food additive or as the high-protein feed mix for poultry and livestock. The jump in relative food inflation and the compression of food-processor margins will be real....