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U.S. Juneteenth Holiday

The CBOT/CME markets and our offices will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday, 19 June in observance of the U.S. Juneteenth holiday. Please note that the next Ag...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.5/bushel, up $0.0625 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $5.82/bushel, down $0.095 from yesterday's close. ...

Trade Spat Between China and EU

When President Biden announced higher Section 232 tariffs on a list of Chinese goods (see WPI 14 May) anxieties were raised over possible retaliation (see...

Biofuel Trade Issues

U.S. ethanol exports during December-March were up 42 percent over the same period a year earlier. The increased sales are not due to the price of petroleu...

Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa Regional Analysis

Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Turkey’s announcement that it would stop wheat imports from June to...

Market Commentary: No Threats so Hedging Bearish

Final planted numbers are unknown until late this month and the spread on that outcome is wide, but weather is only a theoretical threat to what could be a...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.4375/bushel, down $0.0625 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $5.915/bushel, down $0.2125 from yesterday's close...

U.S. Pork Kept Out of Africa

At a recent hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) highlighted Africa’s call for the renewal of the Afri...

Mercosur Regional Analysis

Wheat Wheat planting is progressing rapidly. According to the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange, 43 percent of the estimated 6.2 Mha have been sown. The Rosario...

Market Commentary: Ignoring Weather, Modest Volume Sees Mostly Red

Grains and soybeans followed the overnight close by trading lower at the open. The early stretch just saw fractional declines but later in the morning, cor...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.5/bushel, down $0.085 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.1275/bushel, down $0.0725 from yesterday's close.&nb...

USDA Proposes Poultry Contracting Rule

Early this month, USDA proposed the Poultry Grower Payments Systems and Capital Improvement Systems rule, the third in a series of livestock and poultry ma...

Oilseed Highlights: Barely Higher And Needing Rain

The Market If it is better to be lucky than good, it is better to close higher even if only barely. July soybeans rose a half-penny this week or 0.04 perce...

Export Sales

Export Sales and Shipments for May 31-June 6, 2024. Wheat:  A total of 115,300 MT in sales were carried over from the 2023/2024 marketing year, which...

Market Commentary: Some Higher Closes on Sideways Trade

Corn, the soybean complex and SRW all closed higher on the day with Kansas City and Minneapolis fractionally lower. For the trading week thus far, July cor...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.585/bushel, up $0.0425 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.2/bushel, up $0.03 from yesterday's close.  Ju...

Cutting Food Waste; Conflicting Approaches

Cutting Food Waste USDA issued a national strategy yesterday that aims to cut food waste by 50 percent by 2030. According to the agency, food waste in the...

Livestock Roundup: Production and Price Outlook

This week’s WASDE upped the projections for pork and broiler production and trimmed the beef forecast slightly at 5 million pounds.  The beef f...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.5425/bushel, up $0.0475 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.17/bushel, down $0.095 from yesterday's close.&nbs...

Black Sea Regional Analysis

Russian Grain Markets: 3–7 June 2024 Russian grain markets remained stable and slightly bullish against solid demand for Russian wheat globally and r...

Market Commentary: Wheat Reverses Course, Corn and Soy Quiet Ahead of WASDE

The CBOT’s trade was primarily focused on last-minute preparation and positioning for the WASDE, which USDA will release at Noon ET on Wednesday. Tha...

Food as National Security; Food Policy and Climate Change

Food as National Security Journalists like Greg Ip and Noah Smith have identified the West’s trifecta of tools to counter China: industrial policy, e...

Senate Republican Farm Bill Framework

As WPI reported on 13 May, both the House and Senate agriculture committees released broad outlines of their respective farm bill drafts. The House Committ...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.495/bushel, down $0.0225 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.265/bushel, up $0.19 from yesterday's close. ...

Priced to Move

U.S. wheat prices and export sales are moving as expected. Nearing the end of the marketing year, old crop wheat was cheaper and now new crop wheat as harv...

Immigration Tariffs?

At a campaign event in Arizona, former President Trump floated the idea of using tariffs on countries who don’t cooperate with the U.S. on illegal im...

CFTC COT Report Analysis

As expected, funds were proven to be staunch net sellers last week, according to Friday’s CFTC report data. Funds were the most aggressive in corn wh...

Goodbye Green Deal/F2F; Unfarming California

Goodbye Green Deal/F2F The EU’s ruling elites are still assessing the impacts of yesterday’s victories by conservative parties that they had de...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.5175/bushel, up $0.03 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.075/bushel, down $0.2 from yesterday's close. ...

El Niño Sparks Corn Demand

Corn production in Sub-Saharan Africa has been volatile for decades but when technology and investment should have been making it less so, it has instead g...

Mercosur Regional Analysis

Corn This week, the Argentine government confirmed that the sworn export sales declarations (DJVE) will not be extended, unlike the previous administration...

Market Commentary: Thursday’s Dead Cat Bounce

Thursday’s few flashes of green turned out to be an anomaly instead of a turning point. On Friday the trade returned to selling off grains and oilsee...

Oilseed Highlights: Good Weather Nudges Bearish Trend

The Market For the week, front month contracts saw a 4 percent decline (-25.75 cents) in soybeans (1179.25/bushel), a 1 percent decline (-$4) in soymeal ($...

Silly International Bureaucrat

UN Secretary General António Guterres has called fossil fuel firms the “grandfathers of climate chaos” and argues that advertising limit...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.4875/bushel, down $0.0325 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.275/bushel, down $0.12 from yesterday's close.&n...

Market Commentary: Bouncing Off a New Floor

Corn, soybeans, and wheat were both higher in the overnight session and added to that mood today except only HRW amongst the wheats held on to gains. For c...

Cattle and Beef: Bigger and Better Respectively

Total cattle slaughter last week during the shortened Memorial Day holiday week was down 67,000 head from the prior week and down 28,000 from last year. Ho...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.52/bushel, up $0.1275 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.395/bushel, down $0.0725 from yesterday's close.&nbs...

Export Sales

Export Sales and Shipments for May 24-30, 2024   Wheat:  The 2023/2024 crop year for U.S. wheat is winding down:  Net sales reductions...

Market Commentary: CBOT’s Game of Price “Limbo” Continues

The CBOT seems to be locked in a game of bearish limbo with markets battling to see which can bend itself beneath the lowest levels of technical support. G...

Farm Bill Prognosis; Reciprocity with Canada

Farm Bill Prognosis A recent survey of economists indicated most do not believe a new U.S. farm bill will be enacted this year. Some speculated it would be...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.3925/bushel, down $0.0325 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.4675/bushel, down $0.115 from yesterday's close...

Black Sea Regional Analysis

Russian Grain Markets: 27–31 May 2024 Russia remains the focus of many world grain analysts as weather factors in Russia and Ukraine make global mark...

U.S. – Brazil Dialogue; Tone Deaf in Europe

U.S. – Brazil Dialogue The 22nd Plenary of the U.S. – Brazil Commercial Dialogue will be held in September to discuss reducing non-tariff barri...

Egypt Needs Wheat

Egypt’s General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) purchased 470 KMT of wheat today. It will come from four countries: Romania, France, Ukraine,...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.425/bushel, down $0.01 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.5825/bushel, down $0.145 from yesterday's close.&nb...

Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa Regional Analysis

Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Egypt’s government has decided to increase the price of subsidized...

From Weekend Reading

In addition to attacking China, populist politicians on both the American right and left are finding audience encouragement when they attack big companies...

No Mimosas

Brazil produces more than a third of the world’s oranges and controls 70 percent of global exports. This drought, plus disease and other issues has c...

Mexico: New President, Mostly Same Policies

Mexico’s Presidential election was held this weekend; the Mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, won an overwhelming majority.  President-ele...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.435/bushel, down $0.0275 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.7275/bushel, down $0.0575 from yesterday's close...

European Market Analysis

Regional News  The EU Commission imposed an import tax on Russian wheat, corn, products derived from their processing, and feed. The duties range from...

Mercosur Regional Analysis

Wheat  Determining how much wheat will be planted in Argentina is difficult. Production margins have gone from very bad to very good, thereby encourag...

CFTC COT Report Analysis

The attached PDF offers graphical depiction and seasonal analysis of managed money and commercial traders' net position in key agricultural commodity marke...

Market Commentary: Markets Enter May like a Lion, Leave as a Lamb

Usually, it’s the month of March that comes in like a lion and leaves like a lamb, but commodity markets chose to follow that pattern in May, which c...

Oilseed Highlights: Coproduct Swap on a Bearish Week

The Market The trade shook off earlier concerns about Brazilian flooding and instead focused this week on the good start to the U.S. soybean crop, and Arge...

Friday Policy Roundup

Brussels versus Beijing: Beijing may launch an investigation into whether the EU is dumping pork into China. Brussels opened an anti-dumping probe on vanil...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.4625/bushel, down $0.025 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.785/bushel, down $0.025 from yesterday's close.&n...

Export Sales

Export Sales and Shipments for May 17-23, 2024.   Wheat:  Net sales reductions of 60,900 metric tons (MT) for 2023/2024 were down noticeably...

Market Commentary: Pigs Fly, the Rest Swim

The market open is very telltale about the trade’s beliefs. It can open hard and fast in one direction or another, or it can move in small increments...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.4875/bushel, down $0.065 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.81/bushel, down $0.1175 from yesterday's close.&n...

Livestock Roundup: China Beef Market

China has just banned beef exports from the JBS plant in Greeley, Colorado over ractopamine. A shipment of frozen omasum (the third stomach in a ruminant a...

Where are the Veggies?

As noted yesterday, USDA estimates that the food category incurring the most inflation this year in the U.S. will be fresh vegetables. Part of the problem...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.5525/bushel, down $0.0725 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.9275/bushel, down $0.075 from yesterday's close...

Black Sea Regional Analysis

Russian Grain Markets: 20–24 May 2024 Crop Outlook Russian weather, particularly spring frosts, became an important factor in estimating the potentia...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.625/bushel, down $0.0225 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $7.0025/bushel, up $0.03 from yesterday's close.&nbs...

Whither U.S. Trade Policy

May is World Trade Month and President Biden declared last week World Trade Week. USDA described it as the perfect opportunity to highlight the importance...

Food Price Improvements

USDA’s Economic Research Service issued its updated forecast for food-related inflation in 2024 and for the most part it involves good news. Year-to-...

Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa Regional Analysis

Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Egypt is reportedly looking at the possibility of importing wheat from Zi...

Cattle on Feed

USDA reports U.S. Cattle on Feed is down one percent for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head to total 11.6 million on May 1, 2024.  Placement...

Memorial Day

U.S. financial markets are closed on Monday, 27 May and consequently there will be no Ag Perspectives report on that day. WPI's analysis reports will resum...

CFTC COT Report Analysis

The big surprise in this week’s CFTC report was the expansion of funds’ short position in corn by over 54,000 contracts. Funds had been aggress...

Oilseed Highlights: Bonus Week for Soybeans

The Market For the week, July soybeans rose 20 cents (1.6 percent) to 1248/bushel. The November soybean contract added 16.25 cents. U.S. soybean futures we...

Cattle on Feed Report: Marketings Up on More Days in April

USDA released the monthly Cattle on Feed report today. The numbers came in very close to the pre-report expectations, making the report neural. Placements...

Friday Policy Shorts

Standards not Tariffs: The complaint against China and some other countries is that production practices are more highly distorted by government policies t...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.6475/bushel, up $0.0075 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.9725/bushel, down $0.0075 from yesterday's close.&...

Export Sales

 Export Sales and Shipments for May 10-16, 2024.   Wheat: Net sales of 17,900 metric tons (MT) for 2023/2024 were down 77 percent from the p...

Market Commentary: Wheat and Corn Still Strong; Soy Complex Waivers

Corn traded mostly higher all session and has gained value in three of the past four days. The soy complex was higher in the overnight session and opened t...

Senate Would Reject Obama; Europe Lives on Crisps

Senate Would Reject Obama President Biden has withdrawn his nominee to become the Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Nelson Cunningham. Cunningham has stell...

Livestock Roundup: COF Preview and Farm Bill Provisions

Cattle on Feed Report USDA will release its Cattle on Feed report tomorrow; the consensus pre-report analysts’ estimate is for the inventory of cattl...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.6125/bushel, up $0.0325 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.93/bushel, down $0.045 from yesterday's close.&nbs...

Trade and Commerce Divide; Genetic Divide

Trade and Commerce Divide Populist Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) wants her Democratic colleagues to undermine corporate America by disrupting...

Sunflower on Edge

Global sunflower seed production is only about one-seventh as large as soybean output, but it has surprisingly continued on a similar trend in supply despi...

Black Sea Regional Analysis

Russian Grain Markets: 13–17 May 2024 Crop Outlook As of mid-May, Russia farmers planted 24.8 Mha of spring crops which is 44.5 percent of the foreca...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.58/bushel, down $0.025 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.975/bushel, up $0.0875 from yesterday's close. ...

Breaking Eggs with Poor Math

Activists have been pressuring the Biden Administration to take more action against Big Ag. The latest is an attack on egg production. Opponents are blamin...

Status of Global Ag

USDA’s Economic Research Service has produced an expansive study entitled, World Agricultural Production, Resource Use, and Productivity, 1961–...

Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa Regional Analysis

Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) hopes to reach an agreemen...

Ultra-Processed Dog Food; Antidumping is Legal

Ultra-Processed Dog Food The number of pets spiked during COVID but the overall trend has been more domestic animals and fewer human babies. Pets are lower...

House Farm Bill Draft: Conservation and Trade

Last week on Friday 17 May, WPI outlined the commodity program proposals in the House farm bill draft. Below are some key changes in the conservation and t...

Bye Bye Black Sheep

New Zealand famously is a country with more sheep than people, but the competition is slipping in favor of humans. The problem is the economics of wool, wh...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.605/bushel, up $0.08 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.8875/bushel, up $0.375 from yesterday's close. ...

European Market Analysis

Regional News  Russia’s agriculture ministry announced that 900,000 hectares of crops will need to be reseeded this year after several frosts/fr...

Mercosur Regional Analysis

Corn  Argentina’s corn harvest continues to progress slowly, slower than WPI expected. It currently spans 25 percent of the area, which implies...

CFTC COT Report Analysis

The attached PDF offers graphical depiction and seasonal analysis of managed money and commercial traders' net position in key agricultural commodity marke...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.525/bushel, down $0.045 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.5125/bushel, down $0.12 from yesterday's close.&nb...

Oilseeds Highlights: Defying the Odds

The Market Despite worries about used cooking oil imports, slow exports, and a drop in the NOPA crush, July soybeans closed the week up 9 cents (0.73 perce...

House Farm Bill Draft Commodity Program Proposals

As we reported Monday, 13 May, the full draft of the House Agriculture Committee’s farm bill was expected to be released today, and it was. Following...

Market Commentary: A Breather in the Market

There was little pushing the market one way or another today, other than a sense that things had been pushed high enough for now. The open was mostly highe...

Livestock Roundup: Pork Demand Rebound

Going into the summer, a big question for meat has been: how will consumer demand hold up? This is especially the case with steadily increasing beef prices...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.57/bushel, down $0.055 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.6325/bushel, down $0.025 from yesterday's close.&nb...

China Retaliation?; WTO Dispute System Not Urgent

China Retaliation? The assumption is that China will retaliate against U.S. agriculture for any new tariffs applied to Chinese goods by President Biden und...

Transatlantic Glue

China understandably responded harshly to the Biden Administration’s sharp increase in tariffs on EV’s and components. However, there is not mu...

Brazil Leans into Meat

Over the past decade, Brazilian corn production has grown faster than its output of animal protein, but that may be changing. Brazil’s corn productio...

Black Sea Regional Analysis

Russian Grain Markets: 6–10 May 2024 This year’s spring weather in Russia is abnormal; last week frost was registered across European Russia ra...

Tariffs: UCO No, Phosphate Yes

The Biden Administration just announced higher Section 301 tariffs on a host of imports from China, after the statutory four-year review of those duties im...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.675/bushel, down $0.05 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.725/bushel, down $0.145 from yesterday's close.&nbs...

Tariff Man’s Competitor; Europe Correctly Fears Trump

Tariff Man’s Competitor Former President Donald Trump prided himself on his use of tariffs, which candidate Biden criticized but now President Biden...

Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan

U.S. agriculture representatives returning from a trade mission to India are all excited about their prospects for boosting sales to the world’s most...

Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa Regional Analysis

Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Saudi Arabia’s Modern Mills Company is now trading its shares on th...

More Details, More Conflicts on Farm Bill

The slow roll of the details of the farm bill continues. On Friday, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson (R-Pennsylvania) released a title-b...

Psychobiotic Nonsense; SPS/TBT and Poultry

Psychobiotic Nonsense One component of a book called The Psychobiotic Revolution is scientifically reasonable – that the human gut biome contains tri...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.725/bushel, up $0.0275 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.87/bushel, up $0.235 from yesterday's close. ...

Milking Future Demand

U.S. and Mexican dairy industry representatives met and renewed their commitment to “collaborate and advocate for mutually beneficial dairy policies...

European Market Analysis

Regional News  Frosts in Russia’s central, southern, and Volga regions have halted spring planting efforts, which will likely contribute to lowe...

Mercosur Regional Analysis

Wheat Brazil’s state of Rio Grande do Sul is experiencing the worst climatic catastrophe in the last 80 years, with intense rains causing major flood...

WASDE Soybeans

USDA’s outlook for 2024/25 U.S. soybeans is for higher supplies, increased exports, and higher ending stocks. The soybean crop is projected at 4...

WASDE Corn

USDA’s outlook for 2024/25 U.S. corn is for modestly larger supplies, increased exports, and higher ending stocks. The yield projection of 181.0 bush...

WASDE Wheat

USDA’s outlook for 2024/25 U.S. wheat is for larger supplies, increased exports, and higher ending stocks. Supplies are projected to increase six per...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.6975/bushel, up $0.1325 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.635/bushel, up $0.26 from yesterday's close. ...

Market Commentary: Wheat Leads WASDE-Defying CBOT Rally

The CBOT was higher heading into Friday’s May WASDE report from the USDA with weather and production concerns in various parts of the globe driving f...

CFTC COT Report Analysis

The surprise in this week’s CFTC report is that – through Tuesday’s data reporting deadline - funds were more aggressive covering grain/o...

Oilseed Highlights: Not Much Ado About Something

The Market After hitting a new contract low yesterday, the trade took July soyoil up nearly 2 cents today and closed out the week with a 3.1 percent rise t...

Tax Debate Coming in 2025 Despite Election Outcome

The 2024 election is now less than six months away. Most of the attention is being paid to various “horse race” issues such as polling, fundrai...

Market Commentary: Weather and Old versus New Crop

The trade continued to position ahead of tomorrow’s May USDA WASDE report. Some took profits as they backed out of positions but, overall, there was...

Livestock Roundup: Strong Performance for Broilers in Q1

2024 is starting off to be a stronger year for broilers, and gaining momentum as the year progresses. Production through Q1 is 99 percent of last year in p...

Grossly Modified Opinion; BRICS Grain Exchange

Grossly Modified Opinion While the European Parliament’s plan for regulating New Genomic Traits (NGT’s) provides a lighter regulatory treatment...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.565/bushel, down $0.02 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.375/bushel, up $0.035 from yesterday's close. ...

Export Sales

Export Sales and Shipments for April 26-May 2, 2024  Wheat:  Net sales of 41,100 metric tons (MT) for 2023/2024 were down noticeably from the pre...

Market Commentary: Grains, Oilseeds Contract on More Pre-WASDE Positioning

Grain futures continue to retreat from their recent rally highs with traders unwilling to overextend risks heading into Friday’s WASDE report. The WA...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.585/bushel, down $0.085 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.34/bushel, down $0.0875 from yesterday's close.&nb...

Flimsy Arguments; Bien SUR Pesticides

Flimsy Arguments Certain Americans are taking sides with Hamas in Gaza, arguing that it is Israel to blame. In a similar fashion, progressive groups focuse...

Meeting with the Cotton Hopeful

Although many small developing countries produce cotton, about five countries produce most of the fiber. China and India alone account for nearly half the...

Black Sea Regional Analysis

Russian Grain Markets: 29 April–3 May 2024 Last week Russia celebrated International Labor Day, and on May 9 will celebrate WWII Victory Day, resulti...

Market Commentary: Traders Pause CBOT Rally While Eyeing WASDE

The grain market fundamentals didn’t change much from Monday to Tuesday, but traders largely suspended their short-covering or long-positioning effor...

Beef Supply Overview

The March data for beef exports at 256.108 million pounds showed a drop in volume of 10.4 percent from March 2023, but posted the highest volume of Q1. Exp...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.67/bushel, down $0.02 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.4275/bushel, down $0.06 from yesterday's close. ...

Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa Regional Analysis

Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Egypt has received 1,000,000 MT of local wheat since the harvest began on...

Market Commentary: Bulls Are Running Again

Bulls remain firmly in charge of CBOT ag trade with weather concerns seemingly around the world prompting short covering and fresh long buying. Wheat and s...

Having Cake and Eat it Too; Philippine Opportunity

Having Cake and Eat it Too The U.S. is a major food exporter and its sales to India are relatively small and steady due to the border measures it encounter...

Geographic Food Price Differences

Eastern European countries were upset a few years ago when it was discovered that food marketers were retailing lower quality foods in their region of Euro...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.69/bushel, up $0.0875 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.4875/bushel, up $0.2625 from yesterday's close. ...

European Market Analysis

Regional News  Algeria purchased 200 KMT of hard wheat – rumored to originate in France – at $249-250/MT C&F.  Turkey issued an i...

Mercosur Regional Analysis

Corn Currently, Argentine farmers have harvested 22 percent of the corn area, with a weekly progress of only 2.3 percent. While soybean harvesting takes pr...

Market Commentary: CBOT Gains Continue on Weather Market, Risk-On Mentality

The CBOT followed the higher trend it established earlier this week with still more bullish news emerging to close the week. First off, the weather remains...

CFTC COT Report Analysis

The attached PDF offers graphical depiction and seasonal analysis of managed money and commercial traders' net position in key agricultural commodity marke...

Oilseed Highlights: South America/SAF Driving Developments

The Market For the week, the July soybean contract added 37.75 cents (3.2 percent) in value. November soybeans closed out Friday’s trading at $12.01/...

Circling the Corral; Un-deglobalizing

Circling the Corral Florida now bans the marketing of cultivated meat. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said lab-grown meat was a threat to the state’s...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.6025/bushel, up $0.005 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.225/bushel, up $0.1825 from yesterday's close. ...

Anti-Meat Slow Roll

As the implications of California’s Proposition 12 and Massachusetts’ Question 3 play out in the marketplace, yet another animal welfare ballot...

Market Commentary: Mostly Higher on Weather

After days of flat to faltering closes, corn and soybeans have now rebounded the past two days, and today wheat joined the rally. In two days, July corn ha...

Livestock Roundup: Ground Beef Clear of HPAI

Live cattle and feeder cattle futures rallied today after feeling the pressure of news and speculation about HPAI. As WPI reported previously, USDA announc...

Summary of Futures

Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.5975/bushel, up $0.09 from yesterday's close.  Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.0425/bushel, up $0.05 from yesterday's close. ...

Export Sales

Export Sales and Shipments for April 19-25, 2024  Wheat:  Net sales reductions of 20,300 metric tons (MT) for 2023/2024 were down noticeably from...

Market Commentary: CBOT Remains Choppy, Volatile as Weather Drives Markets

The CBOT saw another day of mixed trade with livestock futures pushing sharply lower as demand fears resurface while wheat futures drew back for a third st...

Food is First Victim; Energy Confusion

Food is First Victim Food comprises just 6 percent of all U.S. exports, but it is the first to receive retaliation in trade disputes. The latest example is...

Egyptian Food Inflation

Bread is a critical basic food in Egypt and Russia has been a prime supplier. But Russian wheat prices have been rising, and now two shiploads of the commo...

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