SPREADS Dec crush is 88.65% with oilshare at 44.83%. Spreads are wider with Dec/March corn trading from 7 /34c to 8 1/2c carry, while Dec 21/Dec 22 trades from 23 1/2c to 18 1/4c. Dec/March wheat trades from 10 3/4c to 11c. Dec wheat/corn trades from 1.77 3/4c to 1.76c. Nov/Jan bean carry trades out to 8 1/2c to 9c. Nov 21/Nov 22 bean carry trades from 25c to 26 3/4c. Dec/March meal trades from $5.40 out to $5.70 carry. PALM OIL Dec. futures up 139 ringgit/mt to 4,331/ringgit/mt. NEWS Stocks are up 200 pts as China returns from holiday. Crude oil trades up to $71.80 with the US dollar at 93.29. CALLS Calls are as follow: beans: 3-5 higher meal: 50-.60 lower soyoil: ...
Key Market Insights Macros: Inflation isn’t cooling — it’s moving higher again. March PCE inflation (Personal Consumption Expenditures index — the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation) rose 0.7 percent month-over-month, pushing the annual rate to 3.5 percent, the h...
An amendment to the U.S. House farm bill, aiming to remove the Save Our Bacon Act language in Section 12006 that would have stripped language to prohibit California’s Proposition 12, Massachusetts’ Question 3, and up to 500 state agricultural laws across the country, was blocked by...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.