GOOD MORNING, Macro market weight created new lows in Ags yesterday, with mixed follow-through this morning. Funds sold across the board yesterday, as corn printed new contract low. Corn now has all the hallmarks of a bear market in progress, with new contract lows, higher volume, and rising open interest as new shorts hop onboard. Wheat prices turn lower as longs went into liquidation mode on the poor technical performance, extending losses this morning. Poor export sales sealed the deal as prices close out the PM session on market lows for wheat and meal. Despite good sales in beans, prices took a technical turn lower here as well. Index rolls move into full gear this week. Bean, wh...
What You Need to Know Today: Russia rejected calls for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, including a proposal to halt attacks on civilian shipping that could help restore grain flows from Ukrainian ports. Tyson Foods announced plans to permanently close its Joslin, Illinois, beef processing facili...
The big news in the cattle markets yesterday was Tyson Foods’ move to close two more beef plants. One of them, the Joslin, Illinois, plant was shuttered immediately after the announcement. The other, in Eagle Mountain, Utah, is a case-ready plant that does not slaughter cattle. Tyson also...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Wednesday. In July, the CPI rose 0.1 percent, seasonally adjusted, and rose 3.4 percent over the last 12 months, not seasonally adjusted. The index for all items less food and energy, or the “core” infla...
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.