THE OPEN Jan beans: 11 1/2 higher Jan meal: 3.90 higher Jan soyoil: 65 higher March corn: 2 3/4 higher March wheat: 11 higher The markets opened higher and continued to find technical buying activity on pullbacks. The recent drop created more short-covering opportunities, while weaker longs seek to get back into the market at recent lows. More business announcements and a good export sales number helped corn, while wheat found short-covering from Russian statements trying to stem the tide of higher domestic prices. Opening rallies continued to build into the numbers throughout the session, and into what would become a very benign and somewhat disappointing report for the bulls.&nbs...
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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.