The CBOT traded a mixed day to close the week with higher wheat futures the only pronounced development. Rising cash wheat values in Russia (up $1-5/MT depending on the region) helped Paris milling wheat move €2.25/MT higher over night and that supported CBOT wheat as well. Wheat/corn bull spreading developed, and that pressured corn futures as well. The exit from old long soybeans/short corn spreads offered technical support to the corn market on Friday, however, while soybeans traded both sides of unchanged. USDA announced the sale of 252,000 MT of soybeans to “unknown” destinations today, with 6,000 MT for 2019/20 delivery and the balance (246,000 MT) for 2020/21 delivery. The agency also reported 133,000 MT of so...
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...
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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.