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Ag Review: Love, Food and Deception

Love, Food and Deception More rants on the lies that are told about the agrifood system, and those who seek to deceive us. A Wheat Market Surplus The era of government-controlled wheat exports by major exporters is gone, and if we may say so, with good riddance. The evolution of the world wheat market and the disengagement of governments has meant, among other things, that a geographically dispersed private sector marketing chain extending from wheat growers to wheat users must shoulder all of the risks involved -- including, most importantly, price risk. The Continuing Evolution of Agricultural Protectionism As long as there has been international agricultural trade, countries have used some form of protectionism to safeguard their pr...

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Market Commentary: Court Ruling Rattles Markets; Corn Rallies on Export Demand

The CBOT was sharply lower to start the holiday-shortened trading week with Friday’s ruling that President Trump’s tariffs may be illegal throwing ag and other markets into confusion. The ruling makes unclear the outlook for negotiating further trade deals – or even continuing...

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Summary of Futures

Dec 25 Corn closed at $4.23/bushel, up $0.0275 from yesterday's close.  Dec 25 Wheat closed at $5.2825/bushel, down $0.06 from yesterday's close.  Nov 25 Soybeans closed at $10.41/bushel, down $0.135 from yesterday's close.  Dec 25 Soymeal closed at $283.8/short ton, down $5.2 fr...

SCO versus West

Instead of focusing on foes, the transatlantic alliance needs to remediate itself. Media reactions to this past weekend’s Shanghai Cooperation Council was telling. The New York Times was shocked that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “friends.” CNN called it “stark op...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Court Ruling Rattles Markets; Corn Rallies on Export Demand

The CBOT was sharply lower to start the holiday-shortened trading week with Friday’s ruling that President Trump’s tariffs may be illegal throwing ag and other markets into confusion. The ruling makes unclear the outlook for negotiating further trade deals – or even continuing...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Summary of Futures

Dec 25 Corn closed at $4.23/bushel, up $0.0275 from yesterday's close.  Dec 25 Wheat closed at $5.2825/bushel, down $0.06 from yesterday's close.  Nov 25 Soybeans closed at $10.41/bushel, down $0.135 from yesterday's close.  Dec 25 Soymeal closed at $283.8/short ton, down $5.2 fr...

SCO versus West

Instead of focusing on foes, the transatlantic alliance needs to remediate itself. Media reactions to this past weekend’s Shanghai Cooperation Council was telling. The New York Times was shocked that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “friends.” CNN called it “stark op...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

WPI Crop Progress and Conditions App (Updated 2 September)

Update for 28 April 2025: Last year, users pointed out differences between the 5-year averages reported in this app and what USDA estimates in its weekly report. The difference exists because WPI calculates average based on the last 5 years of observations for the current week. In cases where o...

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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming

WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.

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