The CBOT rallied for a second straight day, but this time it was soybeans leading the way. The oilseed market moved higher after rumors surfaced that China could be considering ending its zero-tolerance policy for COVID-19, a move that would boost food, fuel, and soybean demand in the country. Moreover, protests in Brazil aimed at supporting the outgoing President Bolsonaro are causing short-term issues in grain movement and marketing. Combined with the impacts of Russia ending the Black Sea export corridor agreement over the weekend, the CBOT had ample reason to rally. Corn and wheat followed Monday’s gains with another move higher as world grain markets continue reacting to the suspension of Ukraine’s ag exports via the Black...
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.