Wheat: Net sales of 329,500 metric tons (MT) for 2020/2021 were up 50 percent from the previous week, but down 4 percent from the prior 4-week average. Corn: Net sales of 395,500 MT for 2020/2021 were up noticeably from the previous week, but down 48 percent from the prior 4-week average. Soybeans: Net sales of 350,600 MT for 2020/2021 were up 32 percent from the previous week, but down 5 percent from the prior 4-week average. Soybean Cake and Meal: Net sales of 261,600 MT for 2020/2021 were up 40 percent from the previous week and 12 percent from the prior 4-week average. Soybean Oil: Net sales of 4,900 MT for 2020/2021 were down 10 percent from the previous week, but up 43 percent from the prior 4-w...
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...
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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.