“Mixed” is the word for the CBOT/CME trade on Tuesday with wheat forming technical reversals and settling lower while corn posted strong technical gains and soybeans were up fractionally in low-volume trade. Cattle futures saw a technical upside breakout that should see strong follow-through buying this week and take the market to new trading range highs. Conversely, lean hog futures see trouble brewing in the cash market and pushed to new, post-Hogs and Pigs report lows. Trouble seems to be arising in China’s feed and grain markets, despite assurances from Party officials. Specifically, China is starting its wheat auctions early this year and on Monday sold 891,938 MT of wheat (88.5 percent of offerings) in its fir...
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.