The CBOT on Tuesday failed to follow Monday’s dramatic technical strength and corn, the soy complex, and wheat all settled lower for the day. A sharp pullback in crude oil prices was primarily responsible for the soy complex weakness as it eliminated a key piece of support for soyoil. In turn, soyoil’s weakness worked against the other legs of the soy crush, selling that subsequently spilled over into corn and wheat. The selling was somewhat surprising as USDA confirmed a large export sale of soybeans to China, and as market chatter suggested additional sales of up to 1 MMT. Funds were net sellers for the day as few firms are looking to expand risk significantly heading into the WASDE report next week. The winners in ag commodit...
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.