The CBOT opened on a weaker note following yesterday’s selling pressure but quickly found buying support and traded higher. Soybeans were the upside leader on Friday with soymeal trading higher as well. Soyoil struggled as the sell leg of soy complex spread and wheat traded a mostly weaker day as well. While the corn market closed higher, the day was quiet and saw bulls mostly unwilling to commit to prices near $5.00. The corn market seems content to hold a sideways pattern heading into the January WASDE. Next week’s WASDE report is expected to feature reductions in the U.S. corn, wheat, and soybean carry out for the U.S. balance sheet. Analysts surveyed by Dow Jones expect USDA to trim the U.S. corn carry out by 103 Mbu...
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.