GOOD MORNING, Prices are mixed this morning with profit-taking in oilshare and grains firmer vs. lower beans and soyoil. Corn trades firmer on more possible planting delays and some lost acreage/replanting in areas of the saturated Midwest. Beans are lower as China is said to have purchased cargoes out of Brazil rather than US origin. Tensions between China/US over Hong Kong continue to spark some buy corn/sell bean trade. Soyoil prices turn lower as crude oil is pressured as OPEC is struggling to convince Russia to extend output cuts through the end of 2020. Before the open, the International Grains Council (IGC), raised the forecast for the 20/21 global corn crop by 11 mln tonnes to 1.169 bln to...
What You Need to Know Today: President Trump claimed the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was over, as both sides accused one another of violating the terms of the agreement. Commercial vessels are increasingly steering clear of the Strait of Hormuz as security risks escalate following Iran...
Key Takeaways: The CME Group is launching new 90 percent Lean Beef and 50 percent Lean Beef futures and options contracts in July. There are five key factors that must be present in physical markets and futures contract specifications for futures contracts to become successful. The two l...
Russian Grain Markets: 29 June-3 July 2026 The new marketing season has officially begun in Russia, although bearish sentiment has been concentrated in the southern regions closest to the Black Sea ports, where export demand has been weakest. Delays in grain deliveries to inland elevators have...
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.