Booming Soybean Crush Sector, Soymeal Exports to Increase Last week was a very eventful one for the U.S. soybean crushing industry. On Monday another soybean crushing plant was announced in northwest Iowa. The plant will be built by a new company called Platinum Crush, LLC in Buena Vista country at the town of Alta, Iowa. The plant will have the capacity to crush 110,000 bushels per day or about 1.05 MMT per year. The estimated cost of the facility is $350 million. It is to be located next to the CN Railway. The planned is the fourth crush plant of similar size announced in the last two months. Others are planned for Crookston, Minnesota (120,000 bushels/day), Spiritwood, North Dakota (150,000 bushels/day), and Shell Rock, Iowa (110...
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...
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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.