Wheat Argentina’s Grain Receivers, Oil Workers, and Oil Federation unions have been striking for nearly two weeks now, complicating grain and oilseed market logistics. At the same time, harvest is moving quickly, registering 13 percent weekly progress last week, bringing total harvested area to 66 percent. Upriver ports are not receiving any meaningful volume of trucks as farmers are struggling with their own logistics. Farmers prefer to sell for December delivery, even when prices are a few dollars less than deferred months, as it allows them to harvest and deliver directly to ports and avoid on-farm storage. The situation is unstable and uncertain, but the one thing is for sure: Argentina will have a very small lineup...
What You Need to Know Today: President Trump claimed the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was over, as both sides accused one another of violating the terms of the agreement. Commercial vessels are increasingly steering clear of the Strait of Hormuz as security risks escalate following Iran...
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...
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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.