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AM Outlook - Crop Ratings/Demand Drive Market

GOOD MORNING, A surprising crop ratings report and more chatter about bean demand presented a higher open, and funds were buyers in the overnight session.  Grains followed, with meal gaining slightly on soyoil.  Trends of note include buy beans/sell corn and buy wheat/sell corn.  By the morning profit-taking in wheat and fund selling in oilshare pulled prices off their highs.  Soyoil futures and wheat are down the most. US corn and bean demand goes its separate ways.  US corn export lags, and for the week ending 8/12 US exporters shipped 0.755 mmt vs. 0.745 mmt week ago, and 1.139 mmt year ago.  China was in for 0.275.  Wheat shipments are 4.885 mmt vs. 5.663 mmt year ago.  Bean export pace continue...

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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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