The CBOT ended weaker as few traders want to add risk heading into a weekend where unpredictable political and headline risk will be key features. The market’s recent volatility is pushing some traders to the sidelines and reducing trading volume. Traders are closely watching the war in Ukraine and its impact on spring planting as well as the intensifying drought in the U.S. southern Plains. Global weather trends are failing to reassure the outlook for world grain supplies, adding another dose of volatility to an already chaotic market. The Russian war against Ukraine continues with little end in sight. Overnight, Russia launched missiles against Lviv, marking the first strike against a western Ukrainian city. Peace talks are still r...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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.