The grain market news this week seemed to be full of more stories of financial woe and disappointment at the upper levels of the industry.The grain market news this week seemed to be full of more stories of financial woe and disappointment at the upper levels of the industry:
CHS reports a third-quarter net loss of $45 million and attributed that to several one-time events triggered mostly by a lack of proper risk management controls. It appears to have been involved in joint business ventures around the world that proved to be very poor investments. The problem with a trading partner in Brazil has grabbed the most headlines. ADM has announced it will be laying off staff, and some sources have indicated this will involve up to 500 emplo...
What You Need to Know Today: Harvest pressure in the U.S. sent corn and soybeans lower as supplies increased and there were signs USDA’s upward revisions to yields in the October WASDE could be close to right. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated over the weekend, with Ukrai...
Key Takeaways: India is excluding sugarcane juice, sugar syrup, and B-heavy molasses from its 2026/27 fuel ethanol procurement program to protect domestic sugar supplies, potentially shifting additional demand toward corn and rice. India’s corn consumption for ethanol has surged from jus...
Developer's Note 24 August 2026: WPI recently completed an exercise that updated the codebase for this app and solved some of the discrepancies between our five-year average calculation and USDA's. There are a few lingering cases where early (late) starts (finishes) to the crop cycle resu...
