The CBOT opened with wheat leading the way higher, soybeans firming with support from soyoil and short covering in soymeal while corn established itself as the sell-side of spreads. Wheat futures rallied on concerns that Russian production may fall as well as short-covering and long hedges being placed. The U.S. weather outlook features heavy rain for the U.S. Plains, Delta, and Southeast this week with some precipitation extending northward into the Ohio Valley. Precipitation across the Corn Belt and northern Plains will be modest and should be favorable for crop development. Temperatures are warm and continue to offer a favorable outlook for the 2020 U.S. crop. Outside markets were higher on Wednesday with U.S. equities rallying,...
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.