A new and different market environment will face grain futures market fundamentalists and technical traders alike as the Trump administration seems likely to wield a much greater influence over grain markets than government has in many years.Commodity futures markets and their price actions are often viewed as a struggle between two types of traders. There are those whose trading is based on perceived fundamental balances between supply and demand, and others who trade on technical analyses of price chart patterns and momentum signals that are often incorporated into esoteric computer-based trading programs. Fundamental analysis and technical analysis are frequently pictured as two entirely different and often competing trading techniques t...
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...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
From WPI Consulting
Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
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.