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Market Commentary: CBOT Rallies Despite Benign WASDE; Soyoil, Soybeans, Corn Post Technically Bullish Days

CBOT markets firmed heading into the April WASDE and continued their strength thereafter, despite a relatively benign USDA report. USDA stuck to its measured approach in estimating losses to South American soybean production as well as the Russia-Ukraine war. USDA’s policy is always to avoid forecasting policy changes and their impacts in the WASDE, and that approach has been extended to war impacts as well. The effect of this approach is that the agency’s Black Sea balance sheets are adjusting more slowly to the war’s impacts than are private estimates.  For the U.S., the April WASDE brought little changes to the major crop balance sheets, with 2021/22 corn ending stocks unchanged after offsetting adjustments to eth...

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Summary of Futures

Mar 26 Corn closed at $4.44/bushel, down $0.005 from yesterday's close.  Mar 26 Wheat closed at $5.105/bushel, down $0.02 from yesterday's close.  Mar 26 Soybeans closed at $10.5625/bushel, down $0.0575 from yesterday's close.  Mar 26 Soymeal closed at $299.5/short ton, down $0.4...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Weaker Crude Oil Sinks CBOT Despite Soybean Sales to China

The CBOT on Tuesday failed to follow Monday’s dramatic technical strength and corn, the soy complex, and wheat all settled lower for the day. A sharp pullback in crude oil prices was primarily responsible for the soy complex weakness as it eliminated a key piece of support for soyoil. In...

Labeling Away Inflation

Canada initiated action more than two years ago to fight high grocery prices. The plan was hatched after then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau demanded a “comprehensive” approach to reducing grocery prices. His ultimatum was to “stabilize” food prices that were inflating at...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Summary of Futures

Mar 26 Corn closed at $4.44/bushel, down $0.005 from yesterday's close.  Mar 26 Wheat closed at $5.105/bushel, down $0.02 from yesterday's close.  Mar 26 Soybeans closed at $10.5625/bushel, down $0.0575 from yesterday's close.  Mar 26 Soymeal closed at $299.5/short ton, down $0.4...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Weaker Crude Oil Sinks CBOT Despite Soybean Sales to China

The CBOT on Tuesday failed to follow Monday’s dramatic technical strength and corn, the soy complex, and wheat all settled lower for the day. A sharp pullback in crude oil prices was primarily responsible for the soy complex weakness as it eliminated a key piece of support for soyoil. In...

Labeling Away Inflation

Canada initiated action more than two years ago to fight high grocery prices. The plan was hatched after then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau demanded a “comprehensive” approach to reducing grocery prices. His ultimatum was to “stabilize” food prices that were inflating at...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Middle East, Mediterranean, and Africa Regional Analysis

Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Morocco has established its soft wheat import rebate program for 1 January to 30 April 2026. The actual amount of the import rebate is calculated on the average landed cost versus the government set reference price based on inform...

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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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