Impending Change in China China's national interest is to continue economic growth and maintain an adequate supply of food, both of which are ambitions that can profit the West. A World Wheat Index The buying and selling of wheat became the first cash grain trade in the United States. It evolved to become the current landscape of wheat futures markets, but it continues to change. Can four North American wheat futures markets and one European wheat futures market all survive? U.S. Soybean Quality Undermining Competitiveness Half a decade ago the protein standard for U.S. dehulled, solvent-extracted soybean meal was 50 percent. Today many processors cannot make soybean meal with 47 percent protein. There needs to be some change to preven...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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.