Wednesday’s CBOT trade was almost entirely focused on positioning for the January WASDE that will be released at noon Thursday. For corn and soybeans, that meant cautiously higher trade with the markets following through on Tuesday’s late-day rallies. The soybean rally came despite weaker soyoil values that were pressured by spread trade and fund liquidation. Wheat, on the other hand, rallied in a notable round of short-covering after the markets plunged to new selloff lows yesterday. Other than the acreage outlook for the 2023/24 U.S. winter wheat crop, wheat traders will be focused on the WASDE’s adjustments to international balance sheets, with the most bullish expectations being for Argentina. Funds were net buyers for...
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.