Soymeal and Chicago wheat were the upside leaders at the CBOT on Monday. Soymeal saw a round of active short-covering and technical buying while the wheat market posted fresh contract highs on Russian export concerns. The soymeal rally helped pull soybean futures higher and near long-term technical resistance that, if broken, could carry futures to $13.00. Corn seemed to be the sell-side of wheat/corn and soy/corn spreads and could not manage much upside traction today, though breaks saw steady buying interest. Funds were net buyers for the day and are aggressively expanding their long position in soymeal. NOPA’s October crush estimates show the organization’s member crushing 184 Mbu of soybeans in the month, 2 Mbu above...
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
Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.