GOOD MORNING, After remaining mostly steadfast in their fund positions over the last few weeks, the funds finally decided to liquidate a portion of their positions heading into the Wed. USDA report at 11:00 central time yesterday. After a lower start to the evening, prices worked back higher from lower for all but soyoil. Overnight trends include a continuing correction in oilshare and firmer spread trade. Report advertised estimates for the May WASDE are out and they are as follows: bean ending stocks: 20/21 at 117 mln bu, 21/22 at 128 mln bu corn ending stocks: 20/21 at 1.275 bln bu and 21/22 at 1.344 bln bu wheat ending stocks: 20/21 at 845 mln bu and 21/22 at 730 mln bu Brazil...
What You Need to Know Today: Markets got a surprise with a corn yield of 181.2 bushels/acre in the October WASDE, above the average estimate of 177.6 bushels/acre and up from USDA’s September estimate of 178.5 bushels/acre. Although stronger demand is expected to absorb some of the addit...
Key Takeaways: On Friday afternoon, President Trump announced that Russia will “immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel” to the United States. The deal, typical of this administration, is light on details but promises an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 m...
The USDA has lowered its 2026 red meat production forecasts slightly while forecasting a slight increase in broiler production. Beef is now projected at 24.802 billion pounds, 75 million pounds less than in September. Cow slaughter is expected to be up; however, this will be offset by lower ste...
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.