General Comments Grain and oilseed markets were firm in the Sunday evening session until Europe came to work with another dose of financial worries. That sent financial markets lower and commodities followed. We opened corn, wheat and soybeans lower this morning and traded lower most of the first hour before November soybeans turned higher and slowly dragged the other markets along. It was a very quiet trading session until the last 15 minutes or so when November soybeans moved to double-digit gains. That move eventually ignited buying in old crop soybeans, and that buying spilled over into the corn market. It was an interesting close with soybeans on a dead run higher followed by corn. Wheat was sluggish but higher. The old crop/new c...
What You Need to Know Today: Cattle futures extended their sharp selloff Friday as weakening cash cattle prices, deteriorating feedlot profitability, and reduced packer demand continued to weigh on the market. The inability of futures to sustain a rally following last week's bullish Cattle on...
Key Takeaways: WPI’s new EU rapeseed crushing margin models point to weaker processing returns over the next four months due to higher rapeseed procurement costs and weaker product values. Statistical forecasts call for German crushing margins to decline from €181/MT to €...
Key Takeaways: The tariff burden rose sharply in 2025 and 2026: the effective rate on imports in HTS Chapters 1–24 increased from 1.53 percent in 2024 to 6.11 percent in 2025, before averaging 5.68 percent in January–August 2026. Headline rates tell only part of the story: exemptio...
From WPI Consulting
Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.