THE OPEN May beans: 13 1/4 higher May meal: 5.00 higher soyoil: 67 higher May corn: 1 higher May wheat: 5 higher Prices opened as expected with a cautious air from opening values given excellent planting weather for the month of April. May corn collapses, trading lower, while oilshare finds its footing as traders buy soyoil/sell meal. Traders buy wheat/sell corn as corn becomes the apparent sell leg of spread action today vs. wheat and beans. Meal prices find some weakness on continuing concerns over ASF. Reuters published an article quoting a source that sow stocks in northern China were 25-30% lower in the north from Feb. to March due to the latest outbreak of ASF. &n...
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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...
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.