SFGA Convention Attendees List
The Attendees List for the 2014 Southern Feed and Grain Convention is now available online by clicking this link.
2014 Southern Feed and Grain Convention Details
It is time to register for the upcoming 2014 Southern Feed and Grain Convention held at the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, July 27 –30, 2014.
By clicking these links you will find a Convention Registration Form, an Agenda of Events, Booth Registration Form, and Contribution Form. If you wish to make a payment using Visa or Mastercard, use this Payment Form. American Express or Discover are not accepted with this method.
However, you may pay for your convention registration, contribution, or booth rental online at the Alabama Feed and Grain website using PayPal. American Express will be accepted as a form of payment ONLY with the PayPal transaction.
If you have not secured your lodging, please use this Housing Request Form. The deadline for making your reservations at our contracted rate is June 24, 2014, which is fast approaching. Please give the hotel clerk our group code as printed on the Hotel Reservation Form. Please make every effort to stay at this location due to the fact we have rooms contracted and if we do not meet our requirement, we will be held responsible for paying for these rooms.
If using a credit card for payment, you can fax your forms to Alabama Feed and Grain’s Edna Waller at 256-775-0136. A copy of your credit card receipt will be placed in your registration packet for pick up at the convention.
Please feel free to print these form and give to anyone else that might wish to attend. If you have any questions feel free to contact Waller at edna@alabamafeedandgrain.com.
If you are choose to mail your forms, please use the following address:
Alabama Feed and Grain Association
300 1st Ave. SE, Suite 202
Cullman, AL 35055
2014 Southern Feed and Grain Convention
Its time for you to make your reservations at the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort for our upcoming 2014 Southern Feed and Grain Convention. The dates for the convention are July 27-30, 2014. Click this link to download a Housing Request Form or Register Online with this link.
The cut-off date for making your reservations at our contracted rate is June 24. You will be receiving your reservations forms for the Convention in a few days. The planning committee has a great group of speakers as well as special entertainment for our Tuesday night banquet. You will not want to miss out !
Soybean Exports Seen Falling on Slow Chinese Demand
APRIL 15, 2014
By: Bloomberg
The pace of soybean exports from the U.S. and South America probably will slow through the end of the season as Chinese demand declines because of ample stockpiles, Oil World said.
Combined exports from Brazil, Argentina and the U.S. will be 45.09 million metric tons from April through September, less than the 46.86 million tons shipped in the same period last year, the Hamburg-based researcher said in an e-mailed report. Exports will slow after 50.73 million tons of soybeans were shipped in the first half of the season that started Oct. 1, according to the report.
Soybeans on the Chicago Board of Trade, a global benchmark, rallied 13 percent this year as U.S. stockpiles tightened amid increasing demand from China in the first half of the season. Chinese importers may have defaulted on at least 500,000 tons of soybeans recently after failing to get access to credit, Oil World said. Slowing demand previously spurred China to cancel some soybean purchases from South America, Oil World has said.
“The strong dependence on demand from China is currently having repercussions on soybean producers and exporters,” Oil World said. It is “likely that soybean demand will suffer temporarily from the large soybean stocks accumulated in China and other importing countries in recent months.”
U.S. soybean stockpiles will be 135 million bushels at the end of the 2013-14 season, 6.9 percent below a previous estimate and less than reserves of 141 million a year earlier, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said April 9. U.S. exporters sold 44.6 million tons this season through April 3, about 4 percent more than the USDA projects shipments will reach for the entire year, raising speculation that some sales will be canceled.
Soybeans Rise on Increased Demand for U.S. Crop; Grains Advance
March 18, 2014
By: Bloomberg
Soybean futures rose the most this month on speculation that demand is rising for supplies from the U.S., tightening inventories. Wheat and corn also rallied.
Processors in the U.S. used 141.6 million bushels of soybeans to make animal feed and cooking oil in February, up 3.9 percent from the same month last year, the National Oilseed Processors Association said yesterday. Exporters shipped more than three times as many soybeans in the week ended March 13 than a year earlier, with 55 percent headed for China, the world’s biggest buyer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
“Export demand continues to be strong, and soybean crushing rates remain very active,” Greg Grow, the director of agribusiness for Archer Financial Services Inc. in Chicago, said in a telephone interview.
Soybean futures for delivery in May rose 1.6 percent to $14.14 a bushel at 11:03 a.m. on the Chicago Board of Trade, heading for the biggest gain since Feb. 28. The price earlier touched $14.195, the highest since March 11
U.S. shipments of soybeans since Sept. 1 reached 38.9 million metric tons as of March 13, up 22 percent from the same period a year earlier, government data show. Before today, futures fell 4.5 percent since reaching a nine-month closing high of $14.5775 on March 7. Abiove, a soy-processors group in Brazil, cut is forecast for the domestic harvest this year to 86.1 million tons, from 87.6 million estimated in January.
Grain prices rose as dry, cold weather reduced crop conditions in parts of the U.S. Great Plains last week, Grow said. More low temperatures forecast over the next two weeks will delay thawing of Midwest soils and may delay optimal planting for corn and wheat in April, Grow said.
Wheat futures for May delivery rose 2 percent to $6.88 a bushel in Chicago. Corn futures for May delivery gained 1.4 percent to $4.855 a bushel.