The CBOT was mixed on Wednesday with corn showing the greatest strength, despite posting gains of just 2-3 cents. Soyoil fell as the Biden administration is delaying rulemaking for biofuel blending mandates and canola futures broke below major support as the Canadian weather outlook improves (marginally). Lower soyoil and canola weighed on soybeans, though new crop futures managed modest gains for the day. Wheat settled higher but that statement fails to capture the day’s lackluster and mostly sideways trade that saw ample reversal of old long wheat/short corn spreads. The U.S. weather forecast is little changed from yesterday with today’s model runs showing hot temperatures across the Plains and western Corn Belt. The heat com...
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
Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.