Agricultural markets were mixed on Wednesday with livestock futures posting another day of solid gains while corn and the soy complex were higher in lackluster trade. Wheat futures saw additional weakness on a strong U.S. dollar and improving weather for the winter wheat crops. Outside news was limited and the markets are focused on tomorrow’s Hogs and Pigs report and next week’s Plantings and Grain Stocks reports. Funds are thought to have been modest buyers of 5,000 contracts each of corn and soybeans while selling 4,000 contracts of wheat. The U.S. EPA said yesterday it is finishing a proposal that would extend the deadline by which oil refiners must prove their compliance with the RFS for the 2019 and 2020 years to 31...
What You Need to Know Today: President Trump claimed the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was over, as both sides accused one another of violating the terms of the agreement. Commercial vessels are increasingly steering clear of the Strait of Hormuz as security risks escalate following Iran...
Key Takeaways: The CME Group is launching new 90 percent Lean Beef and 50 percent Lean Beef futures and options contracts in July. There are five key factors that must be present in physical markets and futures contract specifications for futures contracts to become successful. The two l...
Russian Grain Markets: 29 June-3 July 2026 The new marketing season has officially begun in Russia, although bearish sentiment has been concentrated in the southern regions closest to the Black Sea ports, where export demand has been weakest. Delays in grain deliveries to inland elevators have...
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.