GOOD MORNING, Prices are lower as a good amount of rain fell across portions of the Midwest recharging soil moisture. The June 30 Stocks/Acreage report will be released at 11:00 central time, with expectations that we are going to see large acreage numbers. Given the recent down-turn in price, one has to wonder how many of those acres are now factored into current prices? Pro Farmer estimated US corn acres close to 93.6 mln acres, 2-3 mln acres less than the highest guess, and estimated 2021 wheat spring acres near 11.3 mln. Overall demand for US beans and corn remains quiet, though it was confirmed by two traders that China purchased 8 cargoes of US beans on the break. Over the weekend, Egypt tendered...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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.