Soyoil futures have seen a dramatic few years with a huge rally in 2020 sending the market to new record highs by 2022 amid the expectations for higher demand from biofuel mandates. However, since reaching mid-2022 highs soyoil has been on a long and volatile decline as global soybean and soyoil production has recovered from drought-induced declines and as demand for soyoil in biofuel has underperformed expectations. But a reversal has occurred over the past two weeks. Soyoil futures have posted a strong technical reversal and have started a new trend higher. This has created ample questions about the longer-term outlook for the commodity. WPI now offers our thoughts starting with a short overview of the global vegoil sector and soyoil&rsqu...
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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.