There was apparently a lack of incentive to either buy or sell grain and soy futures in the overnight session, and that carried over into the day session as well. Whether or not today’s midterm election had anything to do with the quiet low volume trade is problematic. The fact is that election aside, markets had precious little to generate trade or price movement today. Anticipation of Thursday’s November WASDE may have also discouraged trade since big market-moving changes are not expected. Markets traded both sides of Monday’s closes but really did very little. Corn and soybeans slipped back in consolidation trade following their recent rallies. Soymeal was slightly higher, and soyoil finished virtually unchanged. Wheat...
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.