Wheat still struggles to find any consistent buying as the funds keep adding to their record short positions. General Comments Markets were lower in the overnight session on very light volume and very little news. The soybean and soymeal markets, however, did not remain docile once the day session opened and old crop soybeans exploded to 17-18 cent gains with meal up more than $7 by mid-morning. That strength brought a much more muted response in the corn and wheat markets that could only post minor gains.Trading volume in corn and soybeans today was very light, but wheat volume seemed to be more normal.U.S. equity markets were strong today. The Dow and the S&P set all-time highs again today. Crude oil was steady and the U.S. dollar i...
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.