GOOD MORNING, The mission of the market is now to define trading ranges from our new ctr highs heading into the summer. Increased talk of increased US imports weighs on prices, while weather appears to offer up a more moderate outlook. There is chatter that South American bean and meal imports could be on tap for the US. Corn could find pressure from talk of corn imports from Argentina and French wheat for feeding which offers resistance. There is also talk that China could be cancelling Brazil bean sales. Meal prices continued to find pressure from lower Chinese meal values and constant buy soyoil/sell meal spread trade. Fundamentally there are few changes, but export cash markets suggest that for...
The corn and soy complex closed higher, with the wheat market mixed, as winter wheat closed up but spring wheat and livestock ended lower. Part of the strength for corn and soybeans may have been a weather premium, as crop planting has started out fast but warm weather has been slow to develop...
Real GDP grew at a 2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2026, slightly below the consensus expectation of 2.3 percent but above the 0.5 percent growth in Q4 2025. The GDP number matches the average annualized pace of growth since the peak back in late 2007, right before the Financial P...
Reflect for a moment on what you eat. There is a lot of advice out there in the ether about what you should eat, but really, what do you currently eat and how much? The good people at the USDA have some data for you, to help you answer that question. USDA says that we eat quite a bit of meat. L...
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Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.