February 6, 2007
Argentina's 2006 soy crush up 14 percent from 2005
Argentina's 2006 soybean crush totalled 32,731,608 tonnes, up 14.1 percent from the 28,690,811 tonnes crushed in 2005, according to the country's Agriculture Secretariat.
Argentina produced 6,161,280 tonnes of soyoil in 2006, up 14.2 percent from the 5,395,517 tonnes produced a year earlier.
Soy pellet output in 2006 totalled 25,517,834 tonnes, up 13.2 percent from the 22,543,589 tonnes produced in 2005.
Analysts expect crush to keep rising over the next couple of years as soybean production rises and crushers boost processing capacity to accompany the bigger harvests.
The 2005/06 soy harvest totalled a record 40.5 million tonnes, up from 39 million tonnes a year ago, according to the US Department of Agriculture. Argentina will produce 43 million tonnes of soybeans from the 2006/07 crop, according to the Agriculture Secretariat.
The following tables show Argentina's soy crush data as measured in tonnes:
Product 2006 2005
Soybeans
January 2,372,189 1,986,404
February 1,936,020 1,799,936
March 2,272,583 1,924,887
April 2,961,181 2,247,994
May 3,343,724 2,749,303
June 3,047,458 2,669,452
July 3,047,582 2,860,824
August 2,763,436 2,591,338
September 3,057,683 2,774,658
October 2,636,081 2,421,991
November 2,682,960 2,078,839
December 2,610,711 2,585,185
TOTAL 32,731,608 28,690,811
Soyoil
January 450,637 379,267
February 372,091 342,118
March 433,878 372,559
April 559,083 429,975
May 621,581 492,244
June 564,361 493,587
July 564,473 538,851
August 518,329 487,836
September 575,626 520,780
October 495,816 457,453
November 507,544 392,245
December 497,862 488,602
TOTAL 6,161,280 5,395,517
Soy Pellets
January 1,854,240 1,567,222
February 1,521,308 1,421,760
March 1,786,078 1,484,797
April 2,297,042 1,761,795
May 2,600,539 2,158,916
June 2,372,930 2,103,861
July 2,348,994 2,324,677
August 2,170,294 2,012,131
September 2,385,670 2,165,854
October 2,053,230 1,897,468
November 2,093,770 1,614,008
December 2,033,738 2,031,101
TOTAL 25,517,834 22,543,589
