Wheat: Net sales of 616,500 metric tons (MT) for 2020/2021 were up 38 percent from the previous week and 42 percent from the prior 4-week average. Corn: Net sales of 1,362,200 MT for 2020/2021 were down 1 percent from the previous week, but up 7 percent from the prior 4-week average. Soybeans: Net sales of 569,000 MT for 2020/2021 were up 40 percent from the previous week, but down 42 percent from the prior 4-week average. Soybean Cake and Meal: Net sales of 163,600 MT for 2020/2021, resulting in increases primarily for Morocco (43,000 MT), Colombia (22,000 MT), Canada (17,700 MT, including decreases of 100 MT), Mexico (16,500 MT), and Venezuela (14,000 MT), were offset by reductions primar...
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...
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WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.