Today’s announcement included news that the CME will add a seasonal discount on live cattle tendered to one delivery location for the October contract (only) as well as details regarding changes to contract specifications for par quality grades.The CME today announced further steps to enhance its livestock markets. As previously reported here, volatility in the Live Cattle futures market during 2015 highlighted certain producer groups’ concerns and led to calls for a structural review of trading rules and procedures. CME President Terrence Duffy had addressed the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) meeting in January 2016 regarding the matter and announced that Live Cattle futures would be added to CME’s Globex Messaging Efficiency...
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.