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CFTC COT Report Analysis

The CFTC report was in line with expectations again as it showed funds still engaged in the expected buying in corn and across the soy complex. Funds expanded their long position in corn by 7 percent and are now just about 17,000 contract shy of their seasonal record long position. Funds were net buyers in soybeans but by a far smaller margins and added just over 7,000 contracts to a small bullish position. Interestingly, funds covered shorts in the soymeal complex and reduced that position by 14 percent, but are still hold a five-year seasonal record short position. Funds nearly doubled their soyoil long last week as ...

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Market Commentary: Down Day but Most of the Week Was Temporarily Up

Today’s trading was mostly lower based on South American weather and the ever-present tariff threat. Overall, the first week in February 2025 experienced the following: It was the fourth week in a row higher for SRW, and the third week up for HRW and HRS. It was the second week in a row...

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Summary of Futures

Mar 25 Corn closed at $4.875/bushel, down $0.0775 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Wheat closed at $5.8275/bushel, down $0.05 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Soybeans closed at $10.495/bushel, down $0.11 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Soymeal closed at $301.4/short ton, down $5 f...

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WPI 2025 Acreage Outlook

With the USDA’s annual Ag Outlook forum happening at the end of this month and planting season a little more than four weeks away for parts of the U.S., the industry is turning its attention to the acreage outlook for 2025. This year offers significant differences from recent conditions t...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Down Day but Most of the Week Was Temporarily Up

Today’s trading was mostly lower based on South American weather and the ever-present tariff threat. Overall, the first week in February 2025 experienced the following: It was the fourth week in a row higher for SRW, and the third week up for HRW and HRS. It was the second week in a row...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Summary of Futures

Mar 25 Corn closed at $4.875/bushel, down $0.0775 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Wheat closed at $5.8275/bushel, down $0.05 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Soybeans closed at $10.495/bushel, down $0.11 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Soymeal closed at $301.4/short ton, down $5 f...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

WPI 2025 Acreage Outlook

With the USDA’s annual Ag Outlook forum happening at the end of this month and planting season a little more than four weeks away for parts of the U.S., the industry is turning its attention to the acreage outlook for 2025. This year offers significant differences from recent conditions t...

U.S. Food Aid Status

The Trump Administration’s placement of the U.S. Agency for International Development on ice has sparked a firestorm in Washington. Critics of the agency point to an NGO industrial complex that works contrary to some American policy goals and diverts money from needy Americans. Supporters...

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Forecasting developments in production agriculture

On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.

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