The CBOT was mixed just two days out from the November WASDE with soyoil and soybeans posting a corrective day lower in profit taking, while corn and wheat drifted sideways/lower. The soy complex saw the most action again with soyoil rallying to a fresh high before ending lower and taking soybeans down with it. Corn traded sideways for most of the day until a wave of selling pressure hit the market in the afternoon. Wheat traded both sides of unchanged in indecisive trade. Fresh news was somewhat limited but additional confirmation that Chinese officials are considering ending or phasing out the zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy was supportive. Funds were net sellers for the day across the board but still hold large long positions in the soy c...
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.