By Raghav Goyal and Naveen Adusumilli
LSU AgCenter
This report projects corn, soybeans, wheat and rice futures prices for the United States for the first quarter (Q1) of 2025. Our analysis utilizes historical data on both cash prices (the price for immediate delivery) and futures prices (the price agreed upon for delivery at a future date).
We aggregate the daily futures prices into quarterly averages to simplify our analysis. Using this dataset, we train several machine learning models to predict futures prices for all the four commodities.