China's domestic corn prices saw modest improvement last week. The slight rise has been largely driven by a recent supply shortage in the north, which has been affected by drought. Oilseeds Soymeal Inventories Continue to Increase Estimated soymeal inventories for major Chinese crushers increased last week to 1.47 MMT, a 6.1 percent (84,100 MT) gain over the previous week. They were 39.98 percent (882,294 MT) lower overall compared with the same period a year ago. Among the surveyed regions, inventories decreased by 27.33 percent to 107,100 MT and 18.25 percent to 471,000 MT in northern and northeastern China, respectively. Meanwhile, they rose by 52.73 to 150,300 in Fujian Province and 51.5 percent to 180,300 MT in Guangxi Province. Alt...
What You Need to Know Today: After a period of limited activity, USDA reported a sizeable 613 KMT in soybean export sales, including 330 KMT to China and 283 KMT to unknown destinations, potentially also China. The purchases represent a meaningful pickup in demand and bring China closer to ful...
Inflation is back in the driver’s seat, and agriculture is getting pulled in two directions. A stronger dollar is pressuring grains despite fresh Chinese buying, while renewed Middle East attacks lift crude oil. Higher energy prices can support commodities, but they also raise expenses an...
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.