GOOD MORNING, Prices are mixed this morning, with grains higher on short-covering. The massive wind storm that impacted the US, along with slightly lower corn crop ratings, has triggered more short-covering this morning. Wheat moves off its low of $4.90 as more of a sideways pattern begins to form from the bottom. Corn in particular has a tendency to post its low around the August report. Depending on the size of the yield printed tomorrow, we will see if this comes true this year. However, the bar has been set high with a 184.5 bpa printed for corn. The market penciled it in, which could set up a fund short-covering rally tomorrow if the USDA takes a more modest road. Typically, the Sep. and Oct...
What You Need to Know Today: China’s state-run COFCO, in statements on Tuesday, implied that U.S. corn exports were currently uneconomical but hinted that the Middle Kingdom would import 3.5 MMT of the feed grain this year, with 1 MMT likely sourced from the U.S. Another drone attack has...
Tanker-tracking data shows a smaller recovery in oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz than previously thought. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, speaking by video to an international energy conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, said that oil moving through the strait was back to 80 to 90 percent...
Key Takeaways: While soybean, palm, sunflower, and rapeseed oils dominate global vegetable oil markets, premium oils such as olive, avocado, coconut, and sesame command substantially higher prices due to their distinctive flavors, nutritional characteristics, and specialized culinary uses.. Ol...
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.