China Purchases U.S. Soybeans China has followed through on its commitment to President Trump with a purchase of U.S. soybeans. Yesterday USDA announced that private exporters reported selling 1.13 MMT to that country. USDA then today announced that another 300,000 MT were sold to Chinese buyers. All sales are for shipment in MY 2018/19 with most of the soybeans apparently set to be loaded in the Pacific Northwest (PNW). Trade sources indicate these sales have been to state-owned grain companies Sinograin and COFCO for delivery in the first quarter of 2019. The soybeans will most likely be entered into China’s state reserves, and the importers will either not be charged the retaliatory tariff or be reimbursed for the payments. It is...
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...
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.