SPREADS Jan crush trades to 1.07c/bu while oilshare trades to 32.87%. Dec/March corn trades to 4 1/2c from 6c, while Dec/Dec trades from a 14c inverse up to 17 1/4c. March corn open interest now stands at 834,775 vs. Dec at 240,433 contracts. Jan meal open interest is 74,649 contracts vs. Jan at 127,433. March bean open interest stands at 235,291 vs. Jan at 335,836. Jan/March beans trades from 2c inverse to 3/4c. Dec/March meal trades from $4.50 up to $5.50. Dec wheat/corn trades from 1.66 1/2c to 1.67 1/2c. PALM OIL Palm oil prices are a bit lower due to poorer export numbers that were released. Malaysia's palm oil exports through Nov 1 -20 period are estimated to be do...
Weather concerns and the impacts of the war in Iran helped push wheat and corn to sharp gains Tuesday, with both markets blowing past key technical resistance levels. The weather is now coupled with geopolitical tensions that look increasingly hard to resolve, which is giving funds the perfect...
Congress is moving forward with its FY 2027 spending bills, while also still working to address FY 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is still in a shutdown. The House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and passed its FY 2027 bill. The House bill prov...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Tunisian researchers have been able to fully sequence the genomes of two local durum wheat types that have been grown in Tunisia for generations. They say that this “could be the key to developing more climate-resistant duru...
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.