The CBOT fell sharply (except for soyoil, which seems to be living in its own little world) with funds quickly and aggressively liquidating long positions, especially in corn. Funds selling pushed markets below technical support levels, which triggered sell-stops and accelerated the CBOT’s decline. Corn futures hit their limit-low this afternoon but settled a few cents above that level. Soybeans tried to rally alongside soyoil but the corn weakness pushed that market off its highs and into a weaker close. Wheat futures seem modestly concerned about poor conditions ratings reflected in USDA’s report yesterday but could not withstand spillover selling from the corn market. Corn/wheat spreads suggest wheat is trying to remain compe...
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.