CBOT futures started the overnight session on a mixed note but turned lower as the night wore on. The opening bell brought with it aggressive selling in soybeans and soymeal. That pressure, however, did not last and soybeans finished with solid gains while soymeal settled just slightly lower. Corn finished the day slightly higher as the afternoon soybean strength overcame weakness in wheat futures. The CBOT’s primary focus presently is the U.S. weather forecast, which remains benign. Long-term forecast models suggest limited heat through July and average or better precipitation. Of course, it is too early to accurately predict mid-July daily highs that could stress corn during pollination, so some weather risk remains. Overall,...
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...