At the moment, present global prices in the soy complex do not offer favorable margins for Brazilian and Argentine market participants. This basically means that the global soybean market belongs to another origin from October until January or until prices increase. Wheat The marketing of Argentine wheat appears to be coming to an end. It is estimated that there are no more than 70,000 MT of unsold wheat export licenses, which all seem to be controlled evenly by the small domestic exporters and the large multinational firms such as ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Dreyfus (ABCD). This available volume is rather limited when considering that Brazilian millers have their demand uncovered for the October-December period. Argentina's new crop producti...
What You Need to Know Today: Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans continued to accelerate, with USDA reporting another 558 KMT sold to China and 236 KMT to unknown destinations. Combined with sales announced Wednesday and Thursday, the latest purchases bring the three-day total to approximately...
Key Takeaways: With the fall calf run now upon us, producers are finally getting a glimpse of what their realized profits will be for 2026. Some producers may have already obtained a strong estimate of 2026 revenues, especially if calves were forward sold in, for example, the mid-summer...
As fall begins, wild migratory birds are starting their seasonal migration. That has the industry and government officials worried about the potential spread, again, of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Some members of Congress have called for the United States to be prepared for a pote...
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.