There was an effort to continue yesterday’s rally overnight. However, enthusiasm faded rather quickly as markets settled into mundane trade with soybeans holding a couple of cents higher and wheat turning down a like amount. That left corn in the middle and about unchanged. The day session continued the limited price movement on declining volume as markets wait upon developments from the Chinese trade negotiations that will resume Wednesday in Washington, DC. KC HRW and MGEX HRS were outliers. KC May fell nearly 12 cents soon after the day trading began, but it was able to recover enough to close only slightly lower. MGEX May fell hard and finished at a new low of $5.4175. With snow still covering much of the Dakotas as well as north...
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.