General Comments Markets had a firmer tone to open the session Sunday evening with soybeans again leading prices somewhat higher. The expected weekend rains were limited to North Dakota and western Minnesota with Iowa again being left high and dry and hot. Markets started to lose their edge after 9:30 and fund selling started to pressure soybeans at mid-morning. Corn and wheat traded 5-7 cents lower most of the session.Weather should become less of a market factor. It is almost the middle of September and rains from now forward are not going to help very many acres of corn and soybeans. What is there is there. The USDA production and WASDE updates will be released Thursday at 12:00pm EDT/11:00am CDT.U.S. financial markets were very str...
As predicted, the Federal Reserve held rates steady at the last meeting before the midterm elections, likely in part because of the election (see WPI 19 October and 22 September). The decision comes at the tail end of a midterm election cycle that has been marked by the two parties campaigning...
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...
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