The CBOT was sharply lower to end the week with traders taking risk off the table amid Thursday’s post-USDA report weakness and a three-day weekend looming. Soybeans were the downside leader despite the surprising reduction in acreage that USDA reported Thursday as funds were simply in a selling mood amid rapidly deteriorating technical conditions. Wheat futures also plunged lower with little fundamental justification and that weakness pulled corn lower and into major technical support as well. The near-term weather forecast remains favorable for most of the U.S. crop-growing regions and that put traders in a mood to book profits or exit longs heading into the three-day weekend. U.S. grain and oilseed processors’ activity...
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.