Minneapolis futures had an incredibly volatile week, but nothing really changed from a fundamental aspect other than the hard red spring wheat crop got smaller. There have also been comments that spring wheat will price itself out of flour blends.The short answer is we think so. Minneapolis futures had an incredibly volatile week. The September contract (shown below) traded as high as$8.68½ early in the week and as low as $7.55 after the mid-week holiday. Nothing really changed from a fundamental aspect other than the hard red spring wheat crop got smaller. There has still been no rain across the western two-thirds of North Dakota, South Dakota and eastern Montana, and temperatures have been in the mid-90s to over 100°F. The entire hard red...
What You Need to Know Today: China’s state-run COFCO, in statements on Tuesday, implied that U.S. corn exports were currently uneconomical but hinted that the Middle Kingdom would import 3.5 MMT of the feed grain this year, with 1 MMT likely sourced from the U.S. Another drone attack has...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt’s Ministry of Supply reports that it will begin the sale of imported wheat through the Egyptian Mercantile Exchange. Sales are expected to be mainly to private-sector flour mills and are intended to stabilize wheat and...
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...
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