The soy complex had a day of very wide trading ranges on good (not big) volume. Corn futures had a 6 cent trading range and closed in the middle, down 3-4 cents. General Comments Markets opened down again Sunday evening. Last week's Commitment of Traders report showed that funds were still holding larger long positions in corn and soybeans than expected. This sent a signal that we still aren't low enough. The weather outlook for the U.S. is also not threatening through the first half of August and probably beyond that. The hard red spring wheat and barley harvests are getting underway across the northern Plains. As anticipated, very early results are quite good. The trade was also expecting corn and soybean ratings to improve in today's c...
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...
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.