SPREADS The May/July Chicago wheat spread is beginning to invert once more, trading from 3-4c. July/Dec corn trades out to 19c from 18 1/4c. July/Nov beans narrows into 4 1/2c from 6 3/4c. May/July meal trades out to $5.50 from $4.60, while July/Dec trades from $5.20 from $6.00. PALM OIL July up 53 ringgits, or 2.6%. Palm oil climbed higher following soyoil futures and a slightly improved pace of exports. Intertek estimated palm oil product exports during April at 1.174 mln mt, up 3.8% vs. March. NEWS Stocks are down 250 pts as more than 3.8 mln laid-off workers have applied for unemployment benefits last week as the US economy slides further into a crisis that is the worst since the 1930's.&nb...
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
Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.