Today was another active trading day, and there seems to be a growing consensus among market participants that current price levels could last in the soy complex for a few more weeks. This could potentially extend through the end of the year. General Comments Today was another active trading day, and there seems to be a growing consensus among market participants that current price levels could last in the soy complex for a few more weeks. This could potentially continue through the end of the year due to fundamental factors such as delayed logistics and strong export demand. Well, please allow me to explain why a setback in the soy complex may be more imminent.Prior to publication of the 10 November WASDE, the adjusting of positions in c...
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.