SPREADS March crush trades to 1.01c/bu while oilshare firmes to 36.46%. July/Dec corn trades from 1 3/4c to 2c, while March/May posts a 6 3/4c trade from 6 1/2c. July/Nov beans trades from 3 1/4c to 4 1/2c. March wheat/corn trades from 1.65 1/4c to 1.63c. March/May meal widens out to $4.10 from $4.00. PALM OIL March palm oil settled up 5 ringgits. Vegoil sources said that India's gov. has informally approached vegoil industry and gov. agencies to avoid purchasing Malaysian palm oil. The boycott of the vegoil is in response to Malaysian Prime Minister's criticism of India's Kashmir region policies and a new citizenship law. India still has a lot more palm they need to purchase, and the rhetoric is not h...
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.