Dec 23 Corn closed at $4.8775/bushel, up $0.005 from yesterday's close. Sep 23 Wheat closed at $6.16/bushel, down $0.1075 from yesterday's close. Nov 23 Soybeans closed at $13.26/bushel, up $0.185 from yesterday's close. Dec 23 Soymeal closed at $392/short ton, up $3.3 from yesterday's close. Dec 23 Soyoil closed at 61.15 cents/lb up 0.93 cents from yesterday's close. Oct 23 Live Cattle closed at $180.675/cwt down $0.65 from yesterday's close. Sep 23 Feeder Cattle closed at $250.125/cwt down $1.325 from yesterday's close. Oct 23 Lean Hogs closed at $79.15/cwt down $2.175 from yesterday's close. Sep 23 WTI Crude Oil closed at $82.52/barrel down $0.67 from yesterday's close.  ...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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.