Soybeans added almost 59 cents/bushel this week and closed back above $17/bushel indicating demand remains strong even as carryover is predicted to rise. Soyoil gained 1.4 cents today to close at 80.95 cents/pound despite Indonesia reopening palm oil sales on Monday. Jakarta was pressured by demands from farmers and workers but will retain a domestic quota for output. There has also been an uptick in Ukraine’s sunflower seed and oil exports with 20,882 MT of sunoil exported last week and 61,932 MT month to date. However, that is still 10 percent lower than a year ago. China’s vegetable oil consumption fell statistically, with China’s National Grain and Oils Information Center (CNGOIC) saying the drop was due to COVI...
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.