Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soyabean futures climbed on Monday as rainy US Midwest weather threatened to further stall soya planting progress, traders said. Traders are building a risk premium into the market ahead of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) US acreage and quarterly stocks reports due on Friday at 11 am. CDT (1600 GMT).
Some optimism that US-China trade talks may get back on track also underpinned soyabeans. The countries' two leaders are due to meet this week at the G20 summit in Japan. CBOT July soyabeans settled up 6-1/4 cents at $9.09 per bushel. CBOT July soyameal gained $2.00 to $317.60 per short ton, while July soyaoil slid 0.09 cent to 28.35 cents per pound.
Ahead of a weekly USDA report later on Monday, analysts, on average, expect 88 percent of soyabeans to have been planted as of Sunday, with crop conditions expected to be at 59 percent good to excellent. The supplement to the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's weekly commitments report showed large speculators slashed their net short position in CBOT soyabeans by about 47,000 contracts in the week to June 18, to 68,119 lots, the funds' smallest net short since mid-February.