The CBOT rallied to end the week with strong commercial buying early in the day that gave way to some fund buying in expectation of ProFarmer’s yield projections. Since Monday’s surprise decline in U.S. crop conditions, the market has been acting bullishly and the ProFarmer early yield assessments certainly aided that viewpoint. The ProFarmer results were issued after Friday’s close and (as discussed below) will likely be bullish corn next week and neutral soybeans. Beyond the crop tours and an updated weekend weather forecast, fresh news was light for the day. USDA retracted its export sales figures published in Thursday’s troublesome launch of its new reporting website, so the market is without guidance on export t...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
From WPI Consulting
Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.