GOOD MORNING, Prices were higher overnight after dropping to new trading range lows for soyoil due to an unexpected wire service report that the EPA would recommend that biofuel mandates should be below 2020 due to less miles traveled. The agency subsequently announced that they could raise it back in 2022 but the damage was done as corn and soyoil were hit hard. Since surprises offer the biggest bang for the buck to the markets, the soyoil futures market took a downward trajectory, taking beans along for the ride last week. Buy meal/sell soyoil trade was noted on Friday, though it appears that there could be interest in oilshare ownership at lower levels. Soyoil enjoys a very healthy bounce overnight leading beans...
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.