Rosario Exchange Sharply Reduces Argentine Soybean Estimate Yesterday the Rosario Grain Exchange reduced its estimate of the Argentine soybean crop from 52 MMT to 46.5 MMT, which follows a spokesperson’s announcement last week that it was likely to do so. This is about the lowest of any forecaster thus far and is evidence that the crop has been badly affected by the three-month drought. Today the Buenos Aires Grains Exchange cut its projection from 50 MMT to 47 MMT. The crop is likely to be even smaller than these two forecasts, particularly if there is no widespread, significant rainfall in the next two to three weeks. While the big cut in Argentina’s crop is impacting the global price of soybeans and soymeal, it should be no...
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...
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USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report was released today. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity amounted to 11.6 million head, 102 percent of last year. Source: USDA, WPI Placements were up, but part of that is attributable to persistent drought c...
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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.