The CBOT was mixed in moderate trading volume heading into the U.S. Independence Day holiday on Tuesday (note that CBOT markets and WPI’s offices will be closed for the day). The shock of Friday’s Grain Stocks and Acreage reports continues to reverberate through markets with corn remaining on the defensive and December futures posting their second consecutive settlement below $5 – the first time this has happened since 2021. The soy complex, in contrast, saw widespread strength with soybeans and soyoil posting strong gains while soymeal rallied then fell back at the day’s end. Wheat futures were mixed, and the KCBT market tried to move higher but pressure from cheaper corn and SRW wheat resulted in a lower close for...
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.