The CBOT opened in-line with expectations with buy grains/sell oilseeds trade developing early. Some bull spreading developed between soyoil/soymeal as the latter contract held to two-sided trade on Friday. Soybeans found early pressure on continued profit taking after yesterday’s pullback but found afternoon strength and closed 10 cents higher. The big news in commodity markets today was a Reuters report that the Chinese government is expected to issue more import quotas for corn this year. The report cited a surge in animal feed demand and tightening corn supplies as reasons for the additional quotas. China has already booked 12 MMT of corn from the U.S. alone, 5 MMT more than its WTO commitments, and WPI sources say the Midd...
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.