As market pessimism mounts in China, last week's average domestic corn price fell. A survey with traders, though, indicated that cornstarch prices did rise slightly, but the uptick had little effect on processors' profit margins. Oilseeds Small Decline in Soymeal Inventories After nearly a month of steady increases, the estimated soymeal inventories of major crushers fell last week to 1.31 MMT from 1.39 MMT two weeks ago (-5.83 percent). That total is 1.08 MMT or 45.23 percent lower than the same period in 2014. Meanwhile, downstream demand has risen in recent weeks. In fact, our recent research suggests that market reports in June had underestimated end user demand for the second-half of that month. Among the surveyed regions, eastern C...
What You Need to Know Today: Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans continued to accelerate, with USDA reporting another 558 KMT sold to China and 236 KMT to unknown destinations. Combined with sales announced Wednesday and Thursday, the latest purchases bring the three-day total to approximately...
Key Takeaways: With the fall calf run now upon us, producers are finally getting a glimpse of what their realized profits will be for 2026. Some producers may have already obtained a strong estimate of 2026 revenues, especially if calves were forward sold in, for example, the mid-summer...
As fall begins, wild migratory birds are starting their seasonal migration. That has the industry and government officials worried about the potential spread, again, of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Some members of Congress have called for the United States to be prepared for a pote...
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.