The August USDA WASDE and NASS production estimates raised the U.S. corn yield while increasing both the U.S. and world corn ending supplies slightly. However, that wasn’t enough to alter the course of the world feed grain supplies. In fact, this was likely just a temporary upward blip in the numbers, which will then trend lower again in subsequent reports. USDA is too high on its world corn production estimate and perhaps also on the U.S. corn yield. We’ll see what the Pro Farmer corn and soybean crop tour thinks about yield prospects this week, although USDA is certainly far more advanced in its methodology. Despite the forecasts for another record yield in the U.S., the rapid change in the world corn supply outlook has been...
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.
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...