SPREADS Today is day 5 of the Goldman Roll. July corn, meal, soyoil, wheat and bean futures now have higher open interest than in May contracts, as futures are rolled forward. July corn open interest now stands as the highest at 606,557, (May corn at 425,396 contracts). July bean open interest is at 285,144 contracts, vs. May at 210,310 and Nov at 220,957. July products and wheat open interest now also carry most contracts. July crush trades. to 54.94c/bu while oilshare trades to 39.10%. July/Nov bean inverse weakens to 1.32c from 1.34 3/4c, with May/July trading from 4 3/4c up to 7c. July/Dec corn inverse trades from 58 1/4c to 65 3/4c, while May/July firms to 14 1/4c from 13 1/2c. May/Jul...
What You Need to Know Today: President Trump claimed the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was over, as both sides accused one another of violating the terms of the agreement. Commercial vessels are increasingly steering clear of the Strait of Hormuz as security risks escalate following Iran...
Key Takeaways: The CME Group is launching new 90 percent Lean Beef and 50 percent Lean Beef futures and options contracts in July. There are five key factors that must be present in physical markets and futures contract specifications for futures contracts to become successful. The two l...
Russian Grain Markets: 29 June-3 July 2026 The new marketing season has officially begun in Russia, although bearish sentiment has been concentrated in the southern regions closest to the Black Sea ports, where export demand has been weakest. Delays in grain deliveries to inland elevators have...
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.