Futures price action during the day session more or less continued the overnight pattern with wheat closing a few pennies higher, corn down less than 2 cents and soybean losses deepening to around 9 cents. Clearly, the sharply weaker U.S. dollar did not impress corn and soybean traders. General Comments There was a great deal of macro stuff going on today, but how much of it was actually reflected in the day’s grain and soy futures price action is open to question. China propped up the yuan versus the U.S. dollar, and an index tracking the U.S. service sector dropped sharply in December. A declining service sector along with other less-than-positive signals from the U.S. economy are taken as signs that the Fed may not raise its interest r...
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.
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...