Wheat Argentina’s wheat crop is suffering from a cold, dry winter. Many areas have not received meaningful rains since June and the crop is suffering. Presently, more than 60 percent of the planted area has soil moisture levels rated as fair/dry and 36 percent of the wheat crop is rated fair/bad (an increase of 10 percent from the prior week). The Cordoba province, which provides about 20 percent of Argentina’s total crop, is the most affected and many hectares are lost already. Santa Fe is in a similar situation. The Buenos Aires province, however, which accounts for 40 percent of the wheat crop, is developing with good conditions and sufficient soil moisture. Exacerbating the drought is the fact that many areas...
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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...
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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.