Dec 21 Corn closed at $5.4725/bushel, up $0.28 from yesterday's close. Sep 21 Wheat closed at $6.515/bushel, up $0.1075 from yesterday's close. Nov 21 Soybeans closed at $13.125/bushel, up $0.4275 from yesterday's close. Dec 21 Soymeal closed at $359.3/short ton, up $4.4 from yesterday's close. Dec 21 Soyoil closed at 60.03 cents/lb up 2.79 cents from yesterday's close. Aug 21 Live Cattle closed at $121.6/cwt down $1.2 from yesterday's close. Aug 21 Feeder Cattle closed at $156.35/cwt down $3.2 from yesterday's close. Aug 21 Lean Hogs closed at $102.775/cwt up $3 from yesterday's close. Aug 21 WTI Crude Oil closed at $72.68/barrel down $0.23 from yesterday's close. ...
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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.