Volatility was once again on display at the CBOT Wednesday, with wheat futures locking limit-down before the USDA’s March WASDE was released and soyoil scoring a new contract high overnight amid a near-record large rally in palm oil. For its part, however, the March WASDE was in-line with expectations and did not seem to significantly contribute to the day’s volatility. The report was neutral/slightly bearish as USDA cut Brazilian and South American crop prospects by less than expected and did not make major adjustments to U.S. export demand. The theme of the WASDE, as predicted by analysts, was for smaller U.S. and world corn and soybean ending stocks. World wheat ending stocks increased due to export restrictions in Ukr...
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.