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January Cattle Inventory Report Preview

Tomorrow, the USDA will release its January Cattle Inventory Report. Given USDA’s decision to drop the July mid-year report due to budget constraints, tomorrow’s inventory report has been highly anticipated. On Monday of this week, WPI noted the significance of the upcoming report.  The next key insight into the markets will be the January cattle report which will show the size of the breeding herd, the size of the 2024 calf crop, and the number of feeder cattle outside of feedlots, i.e. calves under 500 pounds, non-replacement heifers, and steers over 500 pounds. This will be another important piece of information on the cattle inventory and is not expected to show conflicts with the Cattle on Feed report. Last year’...

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Market Commentary: South American Weather, Harvest Pressure CBOT

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2025 Pork in China

Zhu Zengyong, an analyst and researcher with the state-backed Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said on Monday that there is no more room for pork growth in China.  A rise in demand from the world’s largest consumer of pork has propelled the expansion and modernization of hog...

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Summary of Futures

Mar 25 Corn closed at $4.825/bushel, down $0.0875 from yesterday's close.  May 25 Wheat closed at $5.935/bushel, down $0.105 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Soybeans closed at $10.29/bushel, down $0.105 from yesterday's close.  May 25 Soymeal closed at $300.9/short ton, down $3 f...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: South American Weather, Harvest Pressure CBOT

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2025 Pork in China

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Monday Policy Shorts

Pesticide Policy: New and controversial Secretary of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says “Nothing is off limits” including agricultural chemicals in his proposed overhaul of U.S. food and drug safety policy. Meanwhile, Iowa is pursuing legislation that would exempt pesticide companies...

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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.

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