For the period September 10-16, 2021. Wheat: Net sales of 355,900 metric tons (MT) for 2021/2022 were down 42 percent from the previous week, but up 1 percent from the prior 4-week average. Corn: Net sales of 373,000 MT for 2021/2022 primarily for Canada (135,800 MT, including decreases of 1,400 MT), Mexico (134,500 MT, including decreases of 64,800 MT), Japan (72,200 MT, including 1,400 MT switched from unknown destinations), unknown destinations (28,800 MT), and China (4,200 MT), were offset by reductions for Jamaica (4,700 MT). Exports of 485,800 MT were to Mexico (254,500 MT), China (140,200 MT), Japan (32,300 MT), Jamaica (19,900 MT), and Guatemala (17,100 MT). Soybeans: Net sales of 902,900 MT for 2021...
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.