Grain and oilseed markets have been all about the weather the past few days, and that has trumped weakness over the last couple of weeks caused by more concerns about what will finally happen in Greece and how that might spill over into other world markets. Those concerns again pushed the dollar sharply higher. Big-time fund liquidation of commodity positions has been the name of the game, and that liquidation dropped crude oil from $105 just a few weeks ago to just below $92 today. Gold and silver followed suit, as did financial markets. Grains and oilseed futures markets crashed as well, with soybean futures dropping a dollar from their highs and wheat and corn futures losing 50-60 cents. The 10 May USDA reports hastened the decline in...
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
Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.