China's Broad Developments China is spending money on agriculture and trading futures, but self-sufficiency remains an unlikely outcome. China Pork Revolution in Context More than half of the world's swine herd is located in China, and the numbers are growing despite low prices and negative margins. China's Expanding Crop Insurance Sector China is expanding its support for agriculture in many different directions and is now the world's second-largest market for agricultural crop insurance. China is Driving Global Soybean Demand China has evolved from being a net soybean exporter in 1994/95 to the importer of almost two-thirds of the world's soybean exports. Questioning China's Current DDGS Policy China's recent policy action of hal...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
Developer's Note 24 August 2026: WPI recently completed an exercise that updated the codebase for this app and solved some of the discrepancies between our five-year average calculation and USDA's. There are a few lingering cases where early (late) starts (finishes) to the crop cycle resu...
Argentina Sunflower Sunflower remains one of the most attractive crops in Argentina, supported by strong demand and favorable prices that currently offer some of the best projected production margins among summer crops. Planted area is estimated at 3.0-3.1 Mha, with around 42 percent already se...
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