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Market Commentary: CBOT Gains After USDA Reports; Soyoil Leads Soy Complex Higher

The CBOT was mostly higher following the all-important Prospective Plantings and Grain Stocks reports with traders looking to price in emerging factors now that USDA’s thoughts on the acreage situation are known. For corn, the emerging factors are dryness in Brazil that could start to threaten safrinha corn yields and for wheat the factors are smaller U.S. acreage in a year when Russia and Australia are likely to see lower output as well. The soy complex rallied as biofuels emerge as a more pressing issue for the market with the Trump administration looking to boost biofuel infrastructure spending and biofuel lobbying groups meeting with the EPA today. There was a sense that perhaps the most bullish expectations are now behind the mar...

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WASDE Wheat - Feb 2026

USDA’s outlook for 2025/26 U.S. wheat is unchanged for exports and slightly higher ending stocks to 931 million bushels - 9 percent higher than last year and the largest since 2019/20. The projected 2025/26 season-average farm price remains at $4.90 per bushel.  The global outlook fo...

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Market Commentary: WASDE Confirms Big Supply, Big Demand; Soybeans Gain on Brazil Quality

The headline numbers from the February WASDE – the South American production estimates – were mostly in line with expectations, which is to say the massive Brazilian soybean crop was found to be even more so. USDA increased its assessment of the Brazilian crop to a new record, which...

WPI Website Security Update - 10 February

On the morning of 9 February, WPI identified unauthorized activity on our website server. Upon discovery, we immediately secured the website and server, took the necessary and advisable steps to examine the environment for comprimises, and deployed the website to a new, secure server.  Our...

wheat

WASDE Wheat - Feb 2026

USDA’s outlook for 2025/26 U.S. wheat is unchanged for exports and slightly higher ending stocks to 931 million bushels - 9 percent higher than last year and the largest since 2019/20. The projected 2025/26 season-average farm price remains at $4.90 per bushel.  The global outlook fo...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: WASDE Confirms Big Supply, Big Demand; Soybeans Gain on Brazil Quality

The headline numbers from the February WASDE – the South American production estimates – were mostly in line with expectations, which is to say the massive Brazilian soybean crop was found to be even more so. USDA increased its assessment of the Brazilian crop to a new record, which...

WPI Website Security Update - 10 February

On the morning of 9 February, WPI identified unauthorized activity on our website server. Upon discovery, we immediately secured the website and server, took the necessary and advisable steps to examine the environment for comprimises, and deployed the website to a new, secure server.  Our...

New World Screwworm Facility in the U.S.

In June 2025, Secretary Rollins announced a five-pronged plan to enhance USDA’s ability to detect, control, and eliminate NWS. As part of that announcement, she also shared plans to build a sterile NWS fly dispersal facility in South Texas. That announcement was made on 30 January, when U...

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