CBOT soybeans up on overly dry weather concerns
CHICAGO, Sept 4 (Reuters) -Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures Sv1 ticked up on Wednesday on support from short-covering and weather risks.
CBOT most-active November soybeans SX24 settled up 9-1/2 cents to $10.21-1/2 per bushel.
CBOT most-active December soymeal SMZ24 settled up $8.50 at $329.3 per short ton.
CBOT most-active December soyoil BOZ24 ended down 0.82 cents to finish at 40.16 cents per pound.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in a weekly crop progress report rated 65% of the soybean crop as good to excellent, down 2 percentage points from a week ago, while analysts on average had expected a 1-point decline.
Industry players have been assessing whether overly dry weather in the U.S. Midwest will dent earlier projections of bumper soybean yields in the upcoming harvest.
Dryness is stressing roughly 25% of the nation's corn and soy crop, a note from Commodity Weather Group said.
Soybeans have also been supported as the possibility of Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola raised hopes that China could buy more U.S. soy.
Reporting by Heather Schlitz; Editing by Mark Porter
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