Record High Soybean Container Exports Monday’s export inspections report indicated that USDA personnel inspected 1,083,866 MT of soybeans during the week ending December 19. Included in that amount was 113,271 MT of soybeans to be exported in containers. That was an unusually large weekly number of soybeans in containers to be inspected. USDA also reported an exceptionally large number of containerized soybean inspections that had not been reported in previous weeks, as far back as the week ending 15 November. The total for the delayed reported inspections was 122,242 MT worth of containers. That brought the total to 235,513 MT, by far the largest weekly reporting of inspections of containerized soybeans in history. It is uncl...
What You Need to Know Today: The corn and soybean markets closed slightly higher in low-volume trade. The wheat market was mixed, with HRW continuing its downward trek on improved moisture. As expected, the bearish cattle on feed report drove down cattle prices and pulled hogs down with it. Mi...
Dry bulk markets were volatile but ultimately steady this week with notable differences in rate developments across vessel classes. The Capesize sector, which led the recent rally in freight rates with its dramatic surge, pulled back slightly amid more cautious chartering activity, partic...
Key Market Insights Macro markets delivered a full whipsaw today. Early in the session, crude oil had rallied back above $100/barrel as traders priced renewed concern over the U.S.-Iran standoff and potential supply risk through the Strait of Hormuz. That strength helped pull grains off their o...
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.