Markets were soft in the Sunday evening session. There was light rainfall across 20-25 percent of Argentina with another chance for showers later this week. The forecast for the southern Plains still looks warm and dry, but KC wheat futures were the weakest overnight. Concerns over the expanding length of fund longs in corn and soybeans coupled with last Friday’s very weak closes kept the trade nervous heading into this week. Markets weakened further at today’s opening and never found much additional selling, gradually returning to unchanged or slightly higher. USDA announced two corn export sales this morning: 108,000 MT to Japan and 255,000 MT to unknown. U.S. equity markets started the day quite strong and then turned mixed...
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.