date:Apr 01, 2019
lenging environment with ongoing trade tensions and other supply chain disruptions. In North America, soy and canola crush operations ran at high capacity, but the near absence of the Chinese market for US soybean stocks reduced profitability. The trade turbulence also negatively affected soybean crush operations in China, as did lower demand for soybean meal for feed following the culling of hogs to control the spread of African swine fever. The segments European and South American operations b