GOOD MORNING, Prices overnight generally were steady after a week of pressure. It is report day and the market has priced in a lot of bearish news, putting the onus on the bears to find something to take us much lower. If we go there, think there will be a lot of anxious end-users waiting to get something on the books. The liquidating length in corn and soyoil sets the sell-the - bearish expectations, (of the report), buy-the-fact scenario. We will see how this one plays out, but sometimes the August or September report can put in motion harvest lows. Soyoil futures broke on the back of weaker energies, and the fact that China announced they might sell soyoil from their reserves. In the Gulf, the...
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.