SPREADS Sep. crush trades to 88c/bu while oilshare moves to 32.60%. Spreads are slightly firmer with July/Dec corn trading into 14 1/4c from 14 1/2c, with July/Sep trading into 4 3/4c from 5c. July/Dec meal widens out to $9.20 from $8.70. July wheat/corn trades from 1.89 1/4c to 1.90 1/4c. July/Nov beans trade out to 8 1/4c from 6 1/2c. July /Dec wheat trades from 12 1/2c to 13c. PALM OIL Up 5 1/2% to one-month highs on continuing better relations with India, one of its largest buyers. AmSpec Malaysia forecast palm oil exports for the May 1-25 period at 1.014 mln mt, up 5.1% vs. 965,025 mt in April 1-25. June cash offers for RBD palm oil and olein both traded $30/mt higher Wed., ending at $...
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.