The CBOT opened on a firm note with soybeans leading the way higher on export business news. Long soybeans/short wheat trade developed early in the day and lasted until wheat futures hit technical support and triggered buy orders. Corn trade saw some light short-covering and funds are thought to have been modest buyers on Friday. Weakness in U.S. equity/macro markets weighed on the CBOT near midday but strength largely returned by the close. Overall, the June WASDE (as expected) was mostly a non-event and did little to encourage markets to exit recent trading ranges. The fundamentals are bearish corn, neutral soybeans, and supportive for wheat. The charts agree with respect to soybeans and wheat but are more supportive for corn. Fund...
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.