The CBOT found ample follow-through selling on yesterday’s bearish October WASDE with funds turning into large sellers in corn, soybeans, and – surprisingly – wheat too. The USDA’s bearish report was certainly the primary catalyst for the day’s decline, though early-morning trade had a sense of macro ‘risk off’ selling related to the rising inflation numbers in the September Consumer Price Index (CPI). On a positive demand note, the break in soybean futures prompted China to enter the market again and rumors suggest the Middle Kingdom booked 4-6 cargoes of U.S. soybeans Wednesday. That seemed to support soybean futures after early weakness and the market spent most of the afternoon trading be...
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...
What You Need to Know Today: The hot, dry weather forecast continues to drive strength in grain futures with corn and soybeans hitting another day of strong gains. Monday’s Crop Progress and Conditions data were in line with market expectations and showed relatively few concerns for the...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.