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Livestock Roundup: Liberation Day Declared, Will Cooler Heads Prevail?

Yesterday, President Trump imposed reciprocal tariffs, stating: My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. April 2, 2025, will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again. We will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us, because we are being very kind. In short, chronic trade deficits are no longer merely an economic problem. They're a national emergency that threatens our security and our very way of life. It's a very great threat to our country.   Trump described trade deficits as a "national emergency" and that his actions will usher in what he called "the golden age of America...

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CFTC COT Report Analysis

The attached PDF offers graphical depiction and seasonal analysis of managed money and commercial traders' net position in key agricultural commodity markets. The data is, of course, taken from the CFTC's weekly Commitment of Traders report, using the futures only data. WPI recently completed a...

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Market Commentary: Weather Not War Tanks the Market

Ags were mostly bearish on weather and an expected improving Crop Progress report, though the latter did not turn out that way. Equities opened partly in the red but quickly shifted green and stayed that way even after Iran launched missiles at U.S. bases in Qatar and Iraq. Save for hogs and Fe...

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Summary of Futures

Jul 25 Corn closed at $4.1925/bushel, down $0.095 from yesterday's close.  Sep 25 Wheat closed at $5.695/bushel, down $0.14 from yesterday's close.  Jul 25 Soybeans closed at $10.5875/bushel, down $0.0925 from yesterday's close.  Jul 25 Soymeal closed at $282.4/short ton, down $1...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

CFTC COT Report Analysis

The attached PDF offers graphical depiction and seasonal analysis of managed money and commercial traders' net position in key agricultural commodity markets. The data is, of course, taken from the CFTC's weekly Commitment of Traders report, using the futures only data. WPI recently completed a...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Weather Not War Tanks the Market

Ags were mostly bearish on weather and an expected improving Crop Progress report, though the latter did not turn out that way. Equities opened partly in the red but quickly shifted green and stayed that way even after Iran launched missiles at U.S. bases in Qatar and Iraq. Save for hogs and Fe...

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Summary of Futures

Jul 25 Corn closed at $4.1925/bushel, down $0.095 from yesterday's close.  Sep 25 Wheat closed at $5.695/bushel, down $0.14 from yesterday's close.  Jul 25 Soybeans closed at $10.5875/bushel, down $0.0925 from yesterday's close.  Jul 25 Soymeal closed at $282.4/short ton, down $1...

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Dairy Herd Grows to Four Year High

Last Friday, the May dairy production totals were released, and USDA says milk production went up again in May. Production nationwide rose 1.6 percent, and the 24 major producing states saw production rise 1.7 percent. That is after production increases in April where USDA revised the April pro...

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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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