The Market The trading week got started with the weather premium getting chopped down due to rains in Argentina. Those rains turned out to be good but not perfect. Then a robust export sales report on Thursday shot more adrenalin into the complex. However, by week’s end more rain is seen coming to South America at the same time supplies from Brazil are getting closer to launch. So, after a few hundred thousand trades going up and down and back and forth, the March soybean contract added 0.199 percent for a value of 1509.5 cents per bushel. Both March soymeal and March soyoil moved 2.1 percent, with meal moving higher to $473.5/ST, and oil dropping down to 60.62 cents/pound. Soybeans are still in a 1476-1548 trading range, but this 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...
The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) enters its mandated six-year review on 1 July. The original intent of the review is outlined in Article 34.7, which obligates members to: Provide recommendations and decide on appropriate actions. Extend the USMCA for another 16 years and meet aga...
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.