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Updates on Renewable Diesel Demand and Soyoil Pricing

The recent weakness in soyoil prices – and, indeed, the multi-year plunge from record highs in 2022 – has been driven by the dynamics of declining expectations for consumption of renewable diesel and biodiesel. This fact is likely well known by WPI readers, though the details of what exactly has been driving the decline may not be as readily identifiable. This article examines the major drivers behind the renewable diesel boom and its impact on soyoil prices, and how the recent deterioration of industry profits has negatively affected these markets. Based on market conditions and our analysis currently, WPI looks for soyoil prices to dip further in 2024/25, but a growing export program should help prevent a major market collapse. As a...

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feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Grains Retreat on Profit Taking, Tariff Talk; Cattle Hit $200 for First Time

Except for soymeal and the livestock markets, the CBOT was lower on Wednesday with traders booking profits and taking a more cautious approach after the recent runup in prices. Too, rhetoric out of the White House is keeping traders guessing on the possible application of and retaliation to var...

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Summary of Futures

Please see attachment...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Black Sea Regional Analysis

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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.

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