US Cash Soymeal-Offers firm even as demand remains routine
delayed the soy harvest and helped to keep crushing supplies tight at processors, dealers said. * Farmers have delayed sales of soybeans while the harvest delays kept a lid on deliveries to meet existing contracts. * Processors boosted soybean basis bids this week in an effort to spur farmer sales while soymeal basis offers have increased in tandem so the crushing plants can maintain a profit. * Soymeal supplies from the United States competitive with shipments from South America, further underpinning the basis at export markets at the US Gulf Coast. * Domestic soymeal demand still largely routine as end users waited to see if prices would continue to decline as is typical during harvest. * CBOT soy complex lower Friday in end-of-the-week profit-taking, with soymeal futures poised for largest weekly decline in four weeks. * CBOT December soymeal down $1.50 at $318.80 per ton as of 11:55 a.m. CDT (1655 GMT). * The CBOT December board crush up 1-1/2 cents at 46-1/2 cents per bushel.