The world was anxious about how all markets would respond to the attacks in Paris, but the action was actually relatively calm. Grain and oilseed markets were mixed with a slightly lower bias to start the week, while there was more excitement in U.S. livestock markets. General Comments The world was anxious about how all markets would respond to the attacks in Paris, but the action was actually relatively calm. World financial and equity markets were mixed although mostly somewhat higher. There was none of the “get me out” selling that might have been anticipated. U.S. equity markets gained strength throughout the session. Crude oil was mostly steady to higher early but started to rally over the noon hour and was more than $1.50 higher wh...
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.