THE OPEN March beans: 1 lower March meal: .40 higher March soyoil: 11 lower March corn: 1 3/4 lower March wheat: 1/2 higher Prices opened as expected with traders back to buying beans and selling corn. Short-covering in soyoil stabilized bean trade, which saw strength from the start of the trading session. One corn specific headline involved China suspending its national ethanol mandate, which suggests they may not import ethanol to blend in the new trade deal. Beans continue to see support from the signing of the deal on Jan 15, an expected bullish USDA report, and future possible Chinese purchases. Funds are an estimated net short 8K contracts of beans, 20K meal, and 90K corn, wh...
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.