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SOARING SOYBEAN FUTURES met the experts' expectations (TIME, Jan. 27), hit a five-year high of $3.17 on July beans, the most actively traded contract on Chicago's Board of Trade. The bean jumped 9Q? in three months on reports of world shortages. After the high, prices fell because processors and exporters quit buying. But traders feel the rise is not ended...
...wonderful winter-for penguins. Texas shivered in the blast of a rare "blue norther," Florida's pole bean and tourist crops were imperiled by frost, the temperature plunged to 22º below in Laramie, Wyo., and the entire northeast was smothered under snow that seemed to fall endlessly, making the average commuter feel his kinship to Nanook of the North...
Reports of an impending world shortage of soybeans in 1961 started the beans jumping. The Department of Agriculture estimated the 1960 U.S. harvest at 559 million bushels, barely enough to meet anticipated demand. From Red China, the world's second largest producer (after the U.S.), came reports of a decimated soybean crop. Actions of Iron Curtain countries that depend on the Chinese harvest seemed to confirm the rumor: Russia de faulted on bean deliveries to West Germany and Denmark; East Germany began buying beans on free world markets. Even Red China itself began seeking liquid oils from India...
Manufacturers who use the bean were grumbling about the higher prices, now 13% above the November level. Procter & Gamble, followed by a host of other companies, raised wholesale prices of bulk shortening by 1? per Ib. Kraft Foods warned that it might have to increase the price on a pound of margarine by a penny or so when its present supply of soybean oil is exhausted. Poultry and cattle feed producers also expected to have to raise prices to offset the increased cost of the soybean. There is little prospect of early relief for the processors. The price of soybeans...
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