Oilseeds Soymeal Inventory Reaches 20-Week High With market data limited last week due to the New Year holiday, there was a lag in reporting. During the two-week information hiatus, China’s estimated soymeal inventory rose to a 20-week high of 1.23 MMT as of 4 January 2019. That was up 280,400 MT (+29.5 percent) from 21 December and 307,000 MT (+33.2 percent) higher than the total for the first week of 2018. As in November and December, the recent increase was not the result of an across-the-board surge in soymeal inventories at the regional level. For example, after trending down most of December, meal stocks in Shandong more than doubled in the past two weeks, jumping 77,900 MT (+129 percent). Similarly, Fujian, Guangdong, and Gua...
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.