The CBOT was mostly higher in quiet, pre-holiday trade and the theme of the day was position liquidation and risk-off heading into what is practically a four-day weekend. Corn and soybeans found fundamental strength from higher ethanol output and export sales to China, respectively. That helped create firmness in the wheat markets, with commercial demand for HRS wheat (traded on the Minneapolis exchange) supporting wheat’s rally. Soyoil was the upside leader again as traders remain bullish the commodity’s long-term demand. Few contracts made meaningful technical developments and Wednesday’s trade was benign, as it typically is heading into major U.S. holidays. On the political front, Mexico is clarifying its policy...
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.