The CBOT was mixed to start the week with all eyes now solidly focused on Wednesday’s WASDE report. Corn and soybeans strengthened in early trade due to weekend rains that missed the western Corn Belt and northern Plains as well as short covering heading into the WASDE report. Wheat futures were lower under bear spreading and lackluster demand expected for the first half of the marketing year. Funds were cautious net buyers in the soy complex and corn while remaining largely neutral wheat. Tuesday’s trade is expected to be mostly sideways while traders make the final, pre-WASDE adjustments. The weekly Export Inspections report was neutral corn, wheat, and soybeans with shipments of all three commodities falling within the...
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.