General Comments The markets took a much deserved vacation today with prices trading both sides of unchanged in moderate volume. It is reported that traditional funds (as opposed to index funds) sold more than 30,000 contracts of soybeans and corn this week and more than 16,000 contracts of soymeal. They are still small longs in corn and soybeans but are short soyoil and wheat. There are all kinds of reports as to what triggered the selling that started Tuesday but there is no doubt that it triggered massive technical selling as prices cascaded lower.Financial markets were lower today but U.S. equity markets had recovered half of the day's early losses by early afternoon. The dollar index and crude oil were also lower.Weather forecasts...
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.