Wheat: Net sales of 351,200 metric tons (MT) for 2020/2021 were up 5 percent from the previous week, but down 34 percent from the prior 4-week average. Corn: Net sales of 2,139,000 MT for 2020/2021 were primarily for China (566,400 MT), unknown destinations (371,500 MT), Japan (344,900 MT, including decreases of 30,000 MT), Mexico (281,800 MT, including decreases of 1,400 MT and 54,000 MT late – see below), and Colombia (178,800 MT, including 50,000 MT switched from unknown destinations and decreases of 20,500 MT), were offset by reductions for Trinidad (400 MT) and Panama (300 MT). Exports of 845,200 MT were primarily to China (204,400 MT), Mexico (159,700 MT), Colombia (130,600 MT), Peru (84,400 MT), and Sou...
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.