Corn Corn is still the most dynamic and interesting market in Argentina. The harvest pace is slowly increasing, advancing 2.5 percent last week to bring the total harvest to 6 percent of the planted area. Despite slow progress in the core corn-growing region, the first plots harvested are showing encouraging yields. As the harvest starts to pick up speed and enter the core agricultural region (which offers better yields), there is an exponential increase in the harvested volume. This has a direct effect on the local market as farmers need to harvest, load, and deliver the grain directly to ports. Despite the fact they have already sold more than 40 percent of the crop, farmers have been pushed to keep selling. Exporters used d...
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...
Key Market Insights Geopolitical Limbo: Geopolitical risk remained a key driver across global commodity markets today. President Trump stated that the Iran memorandum of understanding is not yet final and warned that military action could resume if negotiations fail. Both sides continue w...
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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.