Except for cattle futures, the CBOT and CME ag markets were all lower on Wednesday as bearishness remains the prevailing sentiment. Commodity markets received a widespread blow on Wednesday after reports surfaced that many financial analysts expect a recession in the U.S. and the world in 2023. At least one firm predicted a 65 percent chance of a U.S. recession, which would be bearish raw commodity demand across the board. In response to this and Tuesday’s fund selling, corn futures pushed sharply lower amid fund selling and broke technical support in a decidedly bearish day of trading. Despite worrying weather forecast for the Southern Plains and further deterioration in Kansas’ wheat crop funds were also sellers of some...
From WPI Consulting
Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.