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European Market Analysis

Regional News  Russian sources indicate the country plans to extend the Black Sea grain export corridor agreement for another 60 days starting 18 May 2023. The EU Parliament has extended duty-free trade with Ukraine for another year starting 6 June 2023.  Drought remains a major concern for Spain although recent rains have offered some slight relief. Last week’s rains were helpful, but the region has still received some 30 mm less rain than average for April-May. Crop production expectations continue to be revised lower and the country’s feed imports will be large for the coming year.  Unfortunately, the latest weather model runs do not offer much hope for relief for Spain in the coming weeks. Forecasts for th...

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Market Commentary: Week of Turmoil, Uncertainty, but Not All Dark

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May 25 Corn closed at $4.585/bushel, down $0.0675 from yesterday's close.  May 25 Wheat closed at $5.57/bushel, down $0.055 from yesterday's close.  May 25 Soybeans closed at $10.16/bushel, up $0.0525 from yesterday's close.  May 25 Soymeal closed at $305.9/short ton, down $1.2 f...

FOB Prices and Freight Rates App (Updated 14 March)

Transportation and Freight Market Comments - 14 March 2025 By Matt Herrington Dry-Bulk Ocean Freight Dry-bulk markets were mostly sideways last week with neither buyers nor sellers wanting to make big moves amid the political and tariff uncertainty. The rapid changes to U.S. trade policy and ta...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

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feed-grains soy-oilseeds

CONAB Forecasts Record Soybean Production

Brazilian soybean farmers will reap an even bigger crop in the 2024/25 season than previously expected, according to forecasts released by the Brazilian crop agency CONAB yesterday.   Brazil's soybean crop, which farmers are harvesting now, is expected to total 167.37 MMT, about 1.3 M...

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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.

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