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Historical highs suggest soybean futures face stiff resistance above $16

A market analyst points to historical highs as farmers ponder the upside potential of soybeans.

Kent Beadle with CHS Hedging says there was a peak of $16.63 in 2008 and five years later prices reached $16.30.

“So two of the major years we peaked out at somewhat close to where our highs were last week, from which we reversed lower. And I think there’s some technical reasons for that.”

Soybean futures also hit $16.77 a year ago and Beadle tells Brownfield there will be significant resistance to challenging lifetime highs.

“Which are about $17.92, which we did in the midst of the drought in 2012.”

Beadle says domestic soybean oil demand will help determine a price ceiling and “being expensive right now isn’t necessarily slowing demand all that much.”