The MarketSoybean futures continue their steady, narrow-range trading. South America is the big unknown and hedging both upside and downside risk means hovering right where we are. Soybean export sales last week were the second lowest of the marketing year, indicating buyers see lower prices ahead. Ten more weeks of South American weather will reveal the truth. For now, the January contract continues to be bracketed between the 20-day and 50-day moving averages. 12122024oilseeds_beans.png 831.29 KBSoymeal export sales were also underwhelming – the worst since mid-October. But after getting beat down pretty good, traders are giving it a slight reprieve from punishment.12122024MC_soymeal.png 142.82 KBSoyoil export sales last week were th...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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.