July finished with a fizzle at the CBOT, with buy wheat/sell corn spreads pressuring the feed grain while soybeans firmed on expectations of continued export sales next week. The only real action was in soyoil and livestock futures, with the former jumping higher and breaking technical resistance while the latter posted solid triple digit gains. End of the month position evening and limited appetite for additional risk heading into the weekend prompted funds to secure some 4,000 contracts of soybeans on Friday. Funds pared back their short corn position by 2,500-3,000 contracts while buying 5,000 contracts of Chicago wheat. Funds were net soyoil buyers as well, adding 3,000 contracts to their position. This morning, the USDA reporte...
What You Need to Know Today: China’s state-run COFCO, in statements on Tuesday, implied that U.S. corn exports were currently uneconomical but hinted that the Middle Kingdom would import 3.5 MMT of the feed grain this year, with 1 MMT likely sourced from the U.S. Another drone attack has...
Tanker-tracking data shows a smaller recovery in oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz than previously thought. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, speaking by video to an international energy conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, said that oil moving through the strait was back to 80 to 90 percent...
Key Takeaways: While soybean, palm, sunflower, and rapeseed oils dominate global vegetable oil markets, premium oils such as olive, avocado, coconut, and sesame command substantially higher prices due to their distinctive flavors, nutritional characteristics, and specialized culinary uses.. Ol...
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.