Soybeans, U.S. soybeans, Chicago Soybean futures contract (first contract forward) No. 2 yellow and par, US$ per metric tonne (JAN-1980 - OCT-2007 )
Year	JAN	FEB	MAR	APR	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT	NOV	DEC
1980	238.77	241.36	227.08	218.21	225.90	232.63	273.72	279.60	303.30	315.02	334.91	293.29
1981	283.48	275.67	272.48	288.26	278.22	264.97	268.12	254.04	242.81	241.25	236.54	231.00
1982	233.97	231.32	227.14	240.08	241.68	231.03	226.39	211.89	200.07	195.66	207.85	208.40
1983	214.44	216.95	219.08	233.81	228.38	221.33	242.28	311.14	329.05	309.73	299.93	289.27
1984	276.04	265.50	286.61	289.34	312.24	287.36	245.17	236.56	222.96	225.56	225.67	217.04
1985	215.75	213.87	216.24	219.93	211.76	211.89	203.63	190.88	188.95	185.53	185.62	191.71
1986	196.92	193.50	196.46	194.07	196.07	194.10	193.64	183.44	177.77	177.01	183.67	180.75
1987	182.22	179.88	179.95	188.56	203.21	205.81	198.60	190.83	192.76	197.84	207.46	218.95
1988	227.47	227.35	230.80	246.94	269.86	344.37	322.14	312.44	311.82	291.25	281.53	290.72
1989	292.76	280.50	286.01	270.99	264.12	254.82	251.01	220.60	213.55	206.41	211.62	211.46
1990	209.83	208.45	218.28	220.67	228.32	221.06	222.46	222.71	226.92	224.80	211.85	213.87
1991	207.51	210.13	213.32	215.89	210.65	208.86	199.10	208.08	216.24	205.74	205.67	204.15
1992	208.61	211.16	216.14	211.30	220.37	224.39	208.10	202.87	202.89	197.68	205.21	208.91
1993	212.33	210.03	214.12	217.68	221.49	221.91	258.84	246.64	236.06	226.09	243.93	252.52
1994	255.60	249.68	250.55	242.76	250.23	249.61	223.24	214.10	207.88	198.71	205.39	206.38
1995	202.50	203.65	209.35	211.27	211.64	216.65	226.92	218.92	232.59	240.99	249.74	263.96
1996	270.12	268.26	265.78	290.42	295.52	284.61	288.77	296.30	297.49	259.80	255.28	257.16
1997	268.10	280.54	305.88	313.36	319.84	304.77	281.16	267.59	255.21	250.75	265.43	254.59
1998	246.00	247.42	240.12	235.09	236.15	231.12	232.43	202.25	193.34	200.76	209.90	204.91
1999	195.04	179.67	175.06	177.54	171.45	170.00	158.31	172.00	180.64	178.18	171.20	169.96
2000	180.38	185.76	190.97	197.10	200.87	186.95	169.50	167.87	180.45	173.61	177.19	185.96
2001	175.42	167.45	164.38	158.61	163.87	170.23	186.65	182.75	172.35	160.63	162.56	160.15
2002	160.06	160.20	168.69	171.36	176.64	185.37	209.09	208.22	208.22	200.09	210.22	208.24
2003	208.68	209.64	210.24	221.72	232.43	229.81	214.05	208.24	231.72	269.01	279.74	283.21
2004	300.94	316.58	360.72	363.55	347.91	320.69	289.82	225.81	206.47	193.45	195.84	198.62
2005	195.66	197.59	233.18	228.76	233.46	254.74	253.35	230.43	212.02	211.17	210.70	216.54
2006	214.01	214.37	212.71	208.90	217.36	216.50	217.25	203.84	199.31	217.89	244.00	243.31
2007	255.87	278.04	276.96	270.39	283.21	302.83	313.48	309.01	347.56	358.40