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Oilseed Highlights: Limping Along

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...

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Market Commentary: Outside Market Noise, but Fundamentals Prevail

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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.

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