General Comments The soybean market continued its free-fall in the Sunday evening session while losses in corn and wheat were limited. In fact, corn was three to five higher early Sunday evening. There were no reasons for anyone to buy soybeans, at least from a more macro perspective. Greece and Europe's ongoing saga didn't improve over the weekend. If anything, the prognosis looked worse following local elections in Europe and the inability to form a government in Greece. The Euro keeps falling and the dollar keeps rising. Crude oil and energy markets also kept getting slapped lower. There was also more talk of funds getting shellacked, losing big money and shutting down. All of that kept the liquidation flow happening, and with funds...
Russian Grain Markets: 12–16 October 2026 During the week in review, the Russian grain market began recovering after an extended decline driven largely by Black Sea logistics bottlenecks, a good crop and weaker global demand in traditional Russian markets. Russia is beginning to harvest c...
What You Need to Know Today: Corn and soybeans were under heavy selling pressure as weaker (or at least as-expected) export demand runs into an accelerating harvest pace with more grain available in the spot market. Corn and soybean harvest progress remains below average across the U.S., espec...
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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.