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Market Commentary: Corn, Soy Post Turnaround; Hog Selloff Continues; Cattle Shrug Off COF Report

Trade at the CBOT was dynamic and interesting on Monday with early-day weakness sending wheat, corn, and soybeans all to fresh lows while late-day short-covering and buying pulled the latter two markets higher. Soybeans scored double-digit gains for the day while the corn market could only manage to come within a few cents of Friday’s close. Weather concerns ahead of this week’s fundamental reports drove the rallies in both markets and traders are increasingly hesitant to be overly short going into this week’s market-moving reports. Wheat, however, continues to see a steady stream of bearish news, this time from forecasts of rain across Russia and a strong harvest pace in the U.S. positioning for the Acreage and Grain Stoc...

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Market Commentary: CBOT Slips as Demand Worries Overtake Supply-Side Surprises

The November WASDE offered mixed influences for the major ag markets with USDA making surprise cuts to the U.S. corn and soybean crops and ending stocks, which rallied markets on Friday. The report also, however, cast doubts on the demand-side outlook for both crops and wheat, and that is what...

Deep Bench to Fight RFK; China Market Risk; Thankless Job

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livestock

Livestock Industry Margins

WPI is excited to present the latest edition of our newest data-driven publication Ag Perspectives Quant: U.S. Livestock Industry Profit Margins. This report offers a comprehensive look at the profitability of the U.S. beef and pork sectors, from cow-calf and farrow-to-finish producers up the v...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: CBOT Slips as Demand Worries Overtake Supply-Side Surprises

The November WASDE offered mixed influences for the major ag markets with USDA making surprise cuts to the U.S. corn and soybean crops and ending stocks, which rallied markets on Friday. The report also, however, cast doubts on the demand-side outlook for both crops and wheat, and that is what...

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Deep Bench to Fight RFKBeing the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture is usually a pretty good job. It involves doling out billions of dollars, the constituency is dominated by courteous country people, and controversies tend to be minor. The person serving the longest in any Cabinet position was Jame...

Rice as a Stable Crop

Last year, India restricted non-Basmati rice exports believing there would be a weather-related short supply. Production was ample and now the country faces record high inventories that will likely be dumped on the world market. The OECD calculates that Indian farmers are implicitly taxed $120...

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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.

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