The CBOT ended sharply higher on Wednesday with corn and wheat leading the way. Higher energy values helped soyoil futures score new contract highs, despite the recent pullback in European sunoil and rapeseed oil values. Wednesday was the last day of the Goldman and index fund rolls, which means spreads will again return to being more reflective of commercial supply/demand expectations. Some profit taking also developed on Wednesday as traders pare risk heading into the long holiday weekend. Note that the CBOT/CME markets will be closed on Friday, 15 April in observance of the Good Friday holiday. Funds were net sellers of soybeans for the day with brokers estimating they liquidated some 4,000 contracts of their long position. Manage...
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...
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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.