Soybeans were the highlight of the CBOT/CME sessions today, leading the way higher amid a sea of otherwise red prices. Corn and wheat futures were lower on profit taking and improved U.S. weather outlooks while the livestock complex was weaker in narrow trading. Volatility continues to reign in the U.S. equity markets with the Down and S&P 500 both down sharply early today but up ¼ to 1/3 of a percent right now. The CBOE’s VIX index is down 1.4% as of this writing and the Wall Street Journal reports U.S. regulators are investigating whether the VIX index may have been manipulated during the latest round of market chaos. COMEX gold futures are $2-3 higher while the dollar is 37 points lower and back under 90. Crude oi...
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.