Confirmation of a 300,000+ MT sale of soybeans to China, plus rumors of continued interest from Chinese buyers, put a bid under the CBOT on Monday. Corn futures were the upside leader with stronger crude oil and spread trade lifting the market above resistance levels and triggering buy-stops. Soybeans were higher without corn’s enthusiasm and are still under technical resistance at $13.00. Cash markets are reportedly tightening even as the U.S. harvest picks up speed and traders are working with ideas that corn and soybeans have already scored their seasonal lows. The market is looking forward and preparing for Thursday’s Grain Stocks report from USDA, which will likely create more sideways/range bound trading as the week goes o...
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.