Monthly Summary April Activity Shows Market Volatility Easing Post Shutdown The novel coronavirus outbreak and lengthy shutdown across China sent the futures markets to new heights in terms of trading activity during the first four months of 2020. For the first quarter, only No. 2 soybeans and cornstarch saw their year-on-year totals for volume, turnover, and open interest decline. The other major commodities, including No.1 soybeans, corn, egg, soymeal, refined, bleached and deodorized (RBD) palm olein, and soyoil were up by double and triple digits. Through April, the year-on-year trends continued, but on a monthly basis the pace either slowed or decreased. Of the aforementioned commodities, egg, RBD palm olein, No.1 soybeans, and...
What You Need to Know Today: President Trump claimed the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was over, as both sides accused one another of violating the terms of the agreement. Commercial vessels are increasingly steering clear of the Strait of Hormuz as security risks escalate following Iran...
Russian Grain Markets: 29 June-3 July 2026 The new marketing season has officially begun in Russia, although bearish sentiment has been concentrated in the southern regions closest to the Black Sea ports, where export demand has been weakest. Delays in grain deliveries to inland elevators have...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.