SPREADS July crush trades to 88.94c/bu while oilshare trades to 42.18%. Spreads are higher this morning with July/Nov bean inverse firming to 1.65c from 1.56c, while July /Dec meal trades to $23.60 from PM lows of $21.30. July/Dec corn strengthens to 1.05 3/4c after selling off to below 90c as new money came into the Dec. cr. July wheat/corn trades from 17c up to 39 1/2c. PALM OIL July ended lower down 62 ringgits /mt. Malaysia's end-April palm oil inventories rose to a five-month high, beating market estimates as production grew for a second consecutive month. Ending stocks increased 7.1% vs. the prev. month to 1.55 mmt, its highest since November. Malaysian Palm Oil Boar...
What You Need to Know Today: Markets got a surprise with a corn yield of 181.2 bushels/acre in the October WASDE, above the average estimate of 177.6 bushels/acre and up from USDA’s September estimate of 178.5 bushels/acre. Although stronger demand is expected to absorb some of the addit...
Key Takeaways: On Friday afternoon, President Trump announced that Russia will “immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel” to the United States. The deal, typical of this administration, is light on details but promises an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 m...
The USDA has lowered its 2026 red meat production forecasts slightly while forecasting a slight increase in broiler production. Beef is now projected at 24.802 billion pounds, 75 million pounds less than in September. Cow slaughter is expected to be up; however, this will be offset by lower ste...
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.