GOOD MORNING, Prices continue to setback into trading ranges. Funds were sellers of 10K corn contracts yesterday as harvest rolls in and cash weakens. Corn closed on its lows yesterday and left a small PM session gap-lower trade. Funds continue long beans, looking for larger breaks to own. Soyoil futures continue to trade solidly after breaking out again to the upside in yesterday's session, and performing well despite a more bearish than expected NOPA Sep number. WEATHER In the west, conditions will be wet with some scatted to moderately heavy precip likely, and slowing harvest. Temperatures are below normal Wed, near to above normal Thurs.-Sunday. In the east the weather remai...
What You Need to Know Today: The corn and soybean markets closed slightly higher in low-volume trade. The wheat market was mixed, with HRW continuing its downward trek on improved moisture. As expected, the bearish cattle on feed report drove down cattle prices and pulled hogs down with it. Mi...
Monday, 25 May is a U.S. holiday, and both the markets and our office will be closed. Please note that the next issue of Ag Perspectives will be published on Tuesday, 26 May. The WPI staff wishes everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend...
USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report was released today. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity amounted to 11.6 million head, 102 percent of last year. Source: USDA, WPI Placements were up, but part of that is attributable to persistent drought c...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.