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Ag Review: Macro Influences and Fundamentals

Fairness and Food Knowledge, income and food all collide in a microcosm of the larger societal issues now being confronted. Macro Influences and Fundamentals The influence of transnational economic trends on commodity markets and commodity prices has been profound during the past two years, more so than at any other time in our memory. Of course, broad economic conditions and trends have always had at least some indirect effect on commodities. Why the Global Soybean Processing Sector is Suffering The global soybean processing sector has been a rapidly-growing industry that generally earned good profits, but that has changed. Global soybean processors now are making low or negative margins. The shift to a lack of profitability has occur...

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feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: An Appearance of Weakness

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FOB Prices and Freight Rates App (Updated 5 November)

WPI Grain Prices and Freight Rate App Note: you can also visit the app directly by clicking here. Supplemental Information The section below offers a concise view of the options available in the current version of the WPI FOB Price and Freight Rate app, along with a short “How To”...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: An Appearance of Weakness

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Supreme Court to Hear Tariff Case Tomorrow

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Inspiring Change; Transactional Ag; USMCA Attack

Inspiring Change U.S. President Donald Trump’s assault on NATO was unpleasant, especially for Europe. Yet the result was European capitals finally agreeing to boost their own financial commitment to the pact instead of continuing to free ride on U.S. taxpayers. Now the same inspiration fo...

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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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