It’s not often that we are talking about weather markets in the days before the Christmas holiday, but there was one of sorts today in soybeans and wheat.It’s not often that we are talking about weather markets in the days before the Christmas holiday, but there was somewhat of one today in soybeans and wheat. It has been very dry across much of Argentina’s prime soybean production areas for some time now. Part of that did receive some good rainfall over the weekend, but the heavier rains (1 inch or more) were confined to a relatively small area, according to the National Weather Service map on the left below. The map on the right shows the 30-day precipitation for Argentina.There are more chances for rainfall across Argentina this week, an...
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The Trump import plan for 300,000 MT of beef supplies used for ground beef, i.e., lean trim, from September through November has, according to Secretary Brooke Rollins, brought some relief to beef prices. The Executive Order states that the Secretary of Agriculture will analyze and review the m...
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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.