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CFTC COT Report Analysis

Friday’s CFTC report showed that funds continue to lean bearish the ag space with money managers either paring back longs or expanding shorts. The only exceptions to the bearish trend was the continued buying in the livestock complex and, in a bit of a switch from recent trends, across the soft commodities as well. Funds cut their net long position across the ag commodities (corn, the three wheats, the soy complex, and the three livestock contracts) by 38 percent last week after they liquidated a total of 85,000 contracts, leaving a net long of 134,463 contracts.  The big moves for the week came from corn and wheat, ...

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Middle East, Mediterranean, and Africa Regional Analysis

Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Tunisia and France have extended their cooperation program in agricultural and rural development for Tunisia. The program is being supported by €76 million from the Agricultural Investment and Modernization Program funded by...

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Summary of Futures

Dec 25 Corn closed at $4.1075/bushel, down $0.0225 from yesterday's close.  Dec 25 Wheat closed at $4.9675/bushel, down $0.0175 from yesterday's close.  Nov 25 Soybeans closed at $10.0775/bushel, up $0.01 from yesterday's close.  Dec 25 Soymeal closed at $274.1/short ton, down $0...

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Market Commentary: New Lows for Wheat, New Highs for Cattle; Soybeans Eye Trade Talks

President Trump walked back some of his statements regarding China over the weekend, which allowed ag markets to breathe more easily this week. Soybeans and soyoil managed to post small gains to start the week after Friday’s trade-war-news-induced collapse, with traders turning hopeful th...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Middle East, Mediterranean, and Africa Regional Analysis

Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Tunisia and France have extended their cooperation program in agricultural and rural development for Tunisia. The program is being supported by €76 million from the Agricultural Investment and Modernization Program funded by...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Summary of Futures

Dec 25 Corn closed at $4.1075/bushel, down $0.0225 from yesterday's close.  Dec 25 Wheat closed at $4.9675/bushel, down $0.0175 from yesterday's close.  Nov 25 Soybeans closed at $10.0775/bushel, up $0.01 from yesterday's close.  Dec 25 Soymeal closed at $274.1/short ton, down $0...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: New Lows for Wheat, New Highs for Cattle; Soybeans Eye Trade Talks

President Trump walked back some of his statements regarding China over the weekend, which allowed ag markets to breathe more easily this week. Soybeans and soyoil managed to post small gains to start the week after Friday’s trade-war-news-induced collapse, with traders turning hopeful th...

Various Campaigns Diagnosed; EU Dependency

Various Campaigns Diagnosed  Climate Change: Since the Paris Accord in 2015, environmentalists have poured hundreds of millions of dollars publicizing the dangers of climate change. They’ve had the buy-in from elites and a cooperative media ecosystem giving attention to the “cr...

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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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