Oilseeds Soymeal Inventory Falls Slightly as Feed Demand Holds Steady China’s soymeal market appears to have found a bottom at the start of May. Feed demand, driven by the poultry and aquaculture sectors, has pushed both cash and future prices gradually upward since the first week of this month. Still, the uncertainty regarding African swine fever (ASF) continues to play havoc with market prices for live pigs, and the direction for new investment is cloudy. The net result was a weekly decrease of just 3,800 MT (-0.6 percent) in China’s estimated nationwide soymeal inventory, bringing the total to 612,800 MT as of 24 May 2019 or 543,300 MT (-47.0 percent) less than the same week a year ago. At the regional level, those stocks i...
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.