Soybeans hit 6-week high as rains delay US harvest.

Chicago soybean prices rose for a second consecutive session, hitting their highest in more than six weeks as rains in parts of the U.S. Midwest delay the harvest of what is expected to be a record crop. The most-active soybean contract on the Chicago Board of Trade was up 0.3 percent at $8.71-1/4 a bushel, after earlier touching its highest since Aug. 22 at $8.75. Rains across the U.S. Midwest are delaying harvesting and stoking fears of crop damage. Brazilian soybean producers have sold 27.3 percent of the crop that will start to be collected around January, compared with 14.1 percent that had been sold at this time last year. China soymeal futures climbed more than 2.5 percent to a record 3,457 yuan ($501.37) per tonne amid ongoing concerns about the trade war.