GOOD MORNING, The markets are higher across the board, with soyoil futures into new ctr highs. Hot and dry weather forecasts verify, sending prices sharply higher, with beans, corn, and meal having upside gap-and-go starts, which is bullish. Corn and bean crops are stressed as weather in the Dakotas hits record highs, and it is estimated that 27% of the corn crop is under severe drought. While the market remains hot, it is not all about the weather. Top star is the vegetable oil market, which remains red hot powered by the biofuels push. According to a Reuters article, production capacity for soyoil is expected to grow 935 mln glns in 2021, about twice as much as yr ago, according to data from the Ston...
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.