The CBOT was primarily focused on the ongoing index fund roll and positioning for tomorrow’s WASDE. Prices opened lower and traded that direction until mid-morning when end-users reentered the market with prices at key levels. Wetter weather across the northern Plains pressured spring wheat futures while falling palm oil and soyoil values pressured the soy complex. Corn was the only major market to post strong gains for the day with suspicions rising that USDA may increase its export forecast again tomorrow. The U.S. weather forecast offers favorable showers and precipitation for the northern Plains, PNW, and parts of the Corn Belt this week but turns dry again after that. Notably, temperatures will be above average for areas i...
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
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.