The estimated nationwide soymeal inventory totaled 512,000 MT as of 23 September, down 40,000 MT (-7.26 percent) from the week before and 467,200 MT lower than the same week in 2015. The volume has been dropping for seven weeks in a row, mainly due to one development. Oilseeds Soymeal Inventories Decline Further The estimated nationwide soymeal inventory totaled 512,000 MT as of 23 September, down 40,000 MT (-7.26 percent) from the week before and 467,200 MT lower than the same week in 2015. All surveyed regions had a decline except northern China where estimated soymeal inventories went up to 124,700 MT (2.21 percent). By comparison, they fell in Guangdong and the east to 142,200 MT (-5.51 percent) and 109,900 MT (-10.14 percent), respe...
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.