Corn tenaciously remained unchanged today even as the soy complex promptly retreated on improving weather in Argentina. U.S. corn basis is still competitive internationally, keeping alive some bullish momentum. General Comments Weekend rains in Argentina created significant headwinds for grain bulls today. Soybeans started Sunday night lower and finished down 6.5 cents before the morning bell. The selling pressure in soybeans pulled soymeal lower as well, and the March soymeal contract finished down $2.90/ST overnight. Corn was weaker but finished the overnight down only 0.25 cents while SRW wheat was up 0.25 cents.The day trading session featured a great deal of red as the story of the day was the modest improvement in Argentina’s weathe...
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.