The imported corn reserve auction sales are currently expected to reach only 10 MMT through September. Because of the large national corn inventory, this will create huge problems and possibly an impetus to push for reform of the auction system. Oilseeds Soymeal Inventories Rise Beyond 1 MMT As of last week, the soymeal inventories of major crushers reached an estimated 1.06 MMT, a 20.81 percent or 180,000 MT increase from the previous week and a 48.06 percent decline against the same week in 2014. Among the surveyed regions, inventories in northeast and north China fell to 73,700 MT (-9.76 percent) and 30,900 MT (-45.2 percent), respectively, compared with the week before. In contrast, last week's estimated total soymeal inventories for...
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.