The CBOT was mostly lower today with favorable weather across the Midwest aiding corn and soybean crops in maximizing this year’s potential yields. Technical selling was also notable as traders position for the August WASDE. Global wheat prices continue to move lower amid large supplies. In total, fundamental news was light, which left the market to continue its downward march. The delayed Export Sales report was bearish old-crop corn and basically confirmed that 2018/19 exports will fall about 70 million bushels short of USDA’s projections. Old-crop soybean shipments exceeded the value needed this week and will likely put final 2018/19 exports slightly ahead of USDA’s forecast. Wheat exports were mixed with sales b...
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.