Soybean futures experienced a slight dip on Friday, with front-month contracts dropping three to four and a half cents. However, January beans bucked the trend, closing nine and a half cents higher on the week. The national average cash soybean price saw a modest increase of four cents to nine dollars and eighty-eight and a half cents per bushel.January twenty twenty-six soybeans settled at ten dollars and fifty-eight cents and three-quarters, down four and a half cents from the previous close. March and May futures also ended lower, by four cents and three and a quarter cents respectively.Soymeal futures saw a fifty cent per ton decrease, while January futures posted a solid six dollars and ten cents gain for the week. Soy oil futures fell thirty to thirty-five points, but January still managed an eighty-two point increase over the week.Thinner volume and lack of fresh news due to government reports being delayed by the holiday kept movements limited heading into the weekend. The next export sales update, covering the week ending December eighteenth, is due next Wednesday, providing a brief pause before the market action resumes.

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