Soybean futures were up as much as 18-20 cents overnight on follow-through buying from yesterday’s strength. The market, however, cooled off just before the session’s close on news reports that yesterday’s talk of renewed conversations with China weren’t really true. Corn and wheat were also higher overnight but with none of the excitement of the soybean market. Trading then became subdued throughout today’s session with corn, wheat and soybeans all trading slightly higher. Trading volume today was light in wheat, better than average in corn and slightly better than average in soybeans. Crude oil continued to soften today, and the U.S. dollar regained a small amount of strength. U.S. equity markets started th...
What You Need to Know Today: USDA reports are delayed until Tuesday due to the federal holiday on Monday. Over the weekend, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Russia warmly welcomed and confirmed this ceasefire by conducting more strikes against Ukraine. Specific...
On Saturday, 10 October, at a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, President Trump said that the U.S. and Mexico would come to terms on a new trade deal, and he said Canada does not need to be part of the deal. Trump called the coming agreement with Mexico “great” but gave no d...
Key Takeaways: The United States has steadily lost global wheat export market share since the 1970s, falling from the world's leading exporter to a projected fifth place in 2026/27. The rapid expansion of Black Sea wheat exports, driven by improved productivity and export infrastructure, has r...
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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.