While too early to know whether India’s oil meal exports are rebounding, domestic demand is growing, especially for de-oiled rice bran (DORB).That open market price has risen to $167/MT, impacting the biggest user and pricing of two major products. Oil Meal Exports Higher but Slowing Soymeal prices in India remain lower and have been stable since December 2016. This has helped soymeal exports, which reached 241,250 MT that month versus 97,750 MT in November 2016. Although they dropped to 155,160 MT in January 2017, that was still significantly higher than the 7,707 MT exported during the same month last year.Exports of all oil meals (soymeal, peanut meat, rapeseed mustard, rice bran extraction, etc.) totaled 301,556 MT in December 2016. D...
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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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.