1.   A big harvest is needed to refill soybean supplies that by the end of the month should stand at the lowest level in more than a decade.

2.   A mechanical problem at the Brazilian port of Paranagua delayed shipments of much-needed soybean supplies to the world market.

3.   More clues to world soybean supplies and demand will be available Friday when the USDA releases its monthly forecasts.

4.   Private forecasters have started to speculate that the U.S. could run out of soybean supplies this summer unless prices move high enough to choke off demand.

5.   Soybean oil supplies, meanwhile, continue to build as demand wanes.

6.   Soybean supplies could be the next to fall dangerously low.

7.   Soybean supplies are likely to be plentiful early next year, if favorable weather fosters development of South American crops, traders said.

8.   The report signaled that high prices and poor margins failed to slow consumption of limited U.S. soybean supplies.

9.   The prospect of lower world soybean supplies and increased demand also pushed up prices on futures of soybean meal, which is used in livestock feed.

10.   The report signaled that high prices and weak margins failed to slow consumption of limited U.S. soybean supplies.