General Comments It was a relatively peaceful trading day today compared to what has gone on the past several trading sessions. This concludes the first full week of the 21-hour trading days, and you certainly don't find much enthusiasm for the changes. The majority of the trading volume continues to take place between the traditional hours of 9:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. CDT. The CME did announce that starting on 12 June the pit trading session will open at 7:20 a.m. on the mornings of key USDA reports. Pit trading will continue to close at 1:15 p.m. There has been some talk that might shift to 2 p.m. when the Globex closes. That would make some sense, but it doesn't seem like that will happen.Markets were "green" all day with the exception o...
What You Need to Know Today: Declining crop conditions ratings and shaky results from the Pro Farmer crop tour sent grains sharply higher on Tuesday. The Pro Farmer tour in Ohio pegged the state yield at 180.18 BPA, about 5.5 BPA below the tour’s 2025 estimate. Similarly, the Pro Farmer...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt is the largest importer of Brazilian maize in the first six months of 2026. Egypt imported about 28.4 percent of maize exports, or about 1.7 million MT. Iran was the third-largest importer at 14.5 percent, or 900,000 MT, fol...
Based on a Depression-era statute, President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of exports to the U.S., or about 5.2 percent of the $383 billion worth of goods the U.S. imported from Canada in 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Of that total, about $39.3 billion was agricu...
From WPI Consulting
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.