After starting the week on a high note, the CBOT posted a “turnaround Tuesday” with corn and wheat giving back much of Monday’s gains. The soy complex posted a second consecutive day lower but pared losses in the afternoon to end fractionally lower. The initial shock of the ProFarmer yield estimates seem to be wearing off and most traders and analysts are penciling in yields 2-5 BPA above the ProFarmer estimate. Corn and wheat seem to have put in the necessary rally in response to smaller corn yields and a slow uptick in wheat demand and are now waiting for USDA’s latest thoughts. The agency’s latest trade estimates and objective yield estimates will be released in the 12 September WASDE. Outside markets...
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.