USDA Reports for Sept 17-23, 2021: Wheat: Net sales of 290,100 metric tons (MT) for 2021/2022 were down 19 percent from the previous week and 30 percent from the prior 4-week average. Corn: Net sales of 370,400 MT for 2021/2022 primarily for Guatemala (138,400 MT), Mexico (102,600 MT, including decreases of 5,900 MT), Canada (87,600 MT, including decreases of 200 MT), Japan (77,400 MT, including 88,600 MT switched from unknown destinations and decreases of 11,800 MT), and Costa Rica (33,000 MT, including 30,000 MT switched from unknown destinations), were offset by reductions primarily for unknown destinations (110,900 MT). Exports of 676,200 MT were primarily to Mexico (262,200 MT), China (140,400 MT), Japan...
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.