Many of the relatively new factors that can affect market cycles are the result of economic and market globalization and integration.Every freely traded market has factors, actual and potential, that can drive its prices up or down. This is certainly true of grain and soy markets and, indeed, all agricultural markets. In fact, we can argue that contemporary grain and soy markets usually face a wider and more diverse set of potential price drivers than do markets for other commodities and financial instruments. We say this acknowledging that followers of markets for energy, currencies, interest rates, equities, metals and government debt might wish to debate our conclusion.Grain and soy markets have been on a multi-year bull run that began i...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.