The CBOT was mostly higher in pre-Christmas trade with soymeal once again leading the soy complex higher, though huge soyoil export sales supported that market. Corn and soybean futures both held onto yesterday’s technical gains, and the strong close on the weekly charts suggests next week’s trade is apt to continue to trend higher. Wheat futures were higher, though gains were mostly found in the KCBT market with new-crop CBOT wheat finding pressure from bear spreading. The weekly Export Sales report was bullish soybeans and neutral/bullish corn and wheat. Soybean sales and shipments once again exceeded their required weekly pace, as did corn and wheat sales. Exports of corn and wheat, however, fell short of their weekly...
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.