The CBOT opened as called with bull spreading between grains/soybeans. Wheat was the upside leader as production risks are growing for the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in the Black Sea. Monday’s CBOT trade also featured a correction in soyoil/soymeal spreads. Soyoil posted a bullish rally while soymeal traded sharply lower but in an inside day on the charts. Rumors of Chinese buying interest kept soybeans from breaking lower, but rallies were similarly capped by fund position rolling and a general lack of news. WPI notes that cash markets continue to tighten across the U.S. with elevation capacity increasingly limited. Commercials have already booked most (all?) of their export capacity for fall and several of our cash market co...
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...