Soybeans Market Overview Demand was slow last week with Chinese buyers waiting for the meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi at the G-20 Summit. Given that the meeting would likely have a significant influence on the trade war’s direction, traders did not want to book sales/purchased without the meeting’s outcome more clearly known. The meeting’s outcome was positive, according to President Trump, and Chinese officials indicated the country will purchase additional agricultural products if an agreement is reached. In essence, nothing has changed, however, as no formal agreement was reached. The market is now waiting to see if China shows more interest in purchasing U.S. soybeans in the near-term, or if it will w...
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...
From WPI Consulting
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.