Soybeans were modestly higher on short covering and technical buying. China and unknown destinations both bought new crop U.S. beans ahead of a meeting on Phase One trade deal progress on the 15th. The demand for China was split into two sales, one for 324,000 tons and one for 264,000 tons, while unknown destinations picked up 111,000 tons. That bring the total over the last four business days to 1,473,000 tons, all new crop, mainly to China.

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