The wheat market has backed off after its long bull run and has begun to cast weaker technical signals. This has caused some liquidation selling and the unwinding of wheat/corn spreads. General Comments It is 1 April, the beginning of a new quarter for many funds and trading entities and a time when fund managers often reallocate some of the money that they manage. USDA's stocks and acreage reports came out close to expectations yesterday. That is to say, the reports certainly did not scare those non-commercials holding long positions in grain and soy futures into a liquidation mode. The reports did not threaten to change technical market patterns. They also did not cause fund managers who planned to allocate more money to grain or soy ma...
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...
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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.