Indian Soybean and Peanut Plantings Expected to Increase A combination of high prices for oilseeds and a sharp drop in cotton prices is expected to result in India's plantings of soybeans and peanuts (groundnuts) increasing by 7 percent and 10 percent, respectively, this year. That is the view of the executive directors of India's Solvent Extractors Association and the Soybean Processors Association. Last year India planted an estimated 10.3 million hectares of soybeans and 4.3 million hectares of peanuts.Earlier this month soybean futures in India reached a record price equivalent to $696/MT ($18.94/bushel). The futures price reached a record equivalent to $1,195/MT.USDA is forecasting Indian soybean production in 2012 at 11.4 MMT, up f...
What You Need to Know Today: Declining crop conditions ratings and shaky results from the Pro Farmer crop tour sent grains sharply higher on Tuesday. The Pro Farmer tour in Ohio pegged the state yield at 180.18 BPA, about 5.5 BPA below the tour’s 2025 estimate. Similarly, the Pro Farmer...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Egypt is the largest importer of Brazilian maize in the first six months of 2026. Egypt imported about 28.4 percent of maize exports, or about 1.7 million MT. Iran was the third-largest importer at 14.5 percent, or 900,000 MT, fol...
Based on a Depression-era statute, President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of exports to the U.S., or about 5.2 percent of the $383 billion worth of goods the U.S. imported from Canada in 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Of that total, about $39.3 billion was agricu...
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.