Markets were mixed overnight and again today. The night session ended with wheat up 9-11 cents, corn steady to a half-cent higher and soybeans down 5 cents. There was none of yesterday’s excitement in the soy complex today. It seems the trade settled back to thinking it might still take a minor miracle to reach a fast agreement with China. There was another bullish wheat story overnight about Russia considering a limit on wheat exports, and that got the wheat markets juiced again today. The Pro Farm corn and soybean crop tour takes place next week, and it will provide some trading grist for the market as attempts will be made to use its yield reports to gauge participants’ views of last week’s USDA yield estimates. U.S...
What You Need to Know Today: President Trump suspended the planned attacks on Iran and announced that the pieces for a framework for peace were in place in a weekend social media post. Iran, however, later said no efforts were underway to conduct negotiations with the U.S., though Oman indicat...
Key Takeaways: E15 expansion would support corn and ethanol demand by increasing domestic biofuel consumption and reducing reliance on petroleum-based fuels. Year-round E15 has gained bipartisan momentum, but the policy remains in legislative limbo as lawmakers continue to negotiate provisions...
From WPI Consulting
Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.