The CBOT traded mostly lower for the day in low-volume, but corn and wheat rallied at the day’s end to post small gains. The soy complex remained under pressure for most of the day, except for the fact soyoil pushed higher amid support from palm oil and crude oil futures. Weekend rains in Argentina and Brazil along with forecasts for heavy rain in central Argentina next week, pressured the markets to start the week. Funds are thought to have been modest net sellers in wheat, sold 9,000 contracts of soybeans, and ended the day flat corn. Spreads were weaker in soybeans and soymeal, a sign that commercials are starting to sell the rally more aggressively. Bayer Crop Sciences (the company that bought Monsanto) announced force maje...
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.