Wheat There were no major developments in the wheat markets last week. Production estimates remain unchanged from what WPI has reported over the past month. Argentina’s export surplus is still forecast at 6.5 MMT, but that volume could be cut further. The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange reported a 10 percent advance in the harvest with yield still well below historical averages and the low end of expectations. The harvested area is mostly in the north of the country with yields ranging from 0.5 to 1.0 MT/ha. There is a lot of nervousness in the milling industry in this area, which will have to travel 800-1,000 km to procure wheat. Bolivia, the main buyer of Argentine flour from the north of the country, could be the main victim of...
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...
In agriculture and food processing, we think a lot about infrastructure: transportation and storage, processing and packaging, distribution and delivery. It is a physical system of roads, railroads, and rivers; concrete and steel storage; processing plants, warehouses, and machinery; and, event...
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.