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Market Commentary: Mixed Day with Wheat Hot, The Rest Not

Today’s trading session pretty much followed the overnight with wheat notching a third day of gains but traders taking a breather on corn, beans, and cattle. While wheat is girded by doubtful moisture conditions in the northern Black Sea region, the corn and soybean markets do not want to prematurely overplay conditions in South America. It is getting later in the growing season, but any kind of large flip could salvage the situation.  In an otherwise limited news day, USDA’s weekly Export Sales report reinforced yesterday’s weather-related bullishness with wheat sales above the prior four-week average. Corn sales dropped slightly from the previous week but were still impressive. Soybean sales slid as did soyoil, but...

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January Cattle Inventory Report Preview

Tomorrow, the USDA will release its January Cattle Inventory Report. Given USDA’s decision to drop the July mid-year report due to budget constraints, tomorrow’s inventory report has been highly anticipated. On Monday of this week, WPI noted the significance of the upcoming report.&...

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Export Sales

Export Sales and Shipments for January 17-23, 2025 Wheat: Net sales of 456,100 metric tons (MT) for 2024/2025 were up noticeably from the previous week and up 96 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 588,900 MT were up noticeably from the previous week and up 97 percent fro...

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Summary of Futures

Mar 25 Corn closed at $4.9025/bushel, down $0.0675 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Wheat closed at $5.665/bushel, up $0.04 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Soybeans closed at $10.44/bushel, down $0.165 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Soymeal closed at $304.7/short ton, down $5.1 f...

livestock

January Cattle Inventory Report Preview

Tomorrow, the USDA will release its January Cattle Inventory Report. Given USDA’s decision to drop the July mid-year report due to budget constraints, tomorrow’s inventory report has been highly anticipated. On Monday of this week, WPI noted the significance of the upcoming report.&...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Export Sales

Export Sales and Shipments for January 17-23, 2025 Wheat: Net sales of 456,100 metric tons (MT) for 2024/2025 were up noticeably from the previous week and up 96 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 588,900 MT were up noticeably from the previous week and up 97 percent fro...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Summary of Futures

Mar 25 Corn closed at $4.9025/bushel, down $0.0675 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Wheat closed at $5.665/bushel, up $0.04 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Soybeans closed at $10.44/bushel, down $0.165 from yesterday's close.  Mar 25 Soymeal closed at $304.7/short ton, down $5.1 f...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Wheat, Corn Lead CBOT Higher; Cattle Correct Ahead of Inventory Report

The CBOT was mostly higher on Wednesday due to the bullish influences of wheat and corn. The two grains saw support from Black Sea and South American weather impacts, respectively, with production outlooks for both regions falling. That put futures in a bullish mood with funds expanding net lon...

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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.

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