The CBOT was expectedly mixed ahead of first notice day and the USDA’s two major reports tomorrow. Traders were adjusting positions and paring back risk heading into the reports, with open interest declining. Soyoil lead the way higher overnight, which helped put a bid under the soybean market, despite analysts’ expectations for a moderately bearish report. Corn gained on wheat with the Minneapolis wheat market forming a major key reversal in the afternoon. Technicals matter little ahead of major fundamental reports, however, and the day had a feeling of quiet consolidation. Funds’ recent selling has taken most of the weather premium out of the market, which means it can easily be added back on a bullish report or a neutra...
Key Takeaways: The CME Group is launching new 90 percent Lean Beef and 50 percent Lean Beef futures and options contracts in July. There are five key factors that must be present in physical markets and futures contract specifications for futures contracts to become successful. The two l...
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
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.