The CBOT pared Monday’s gains on Tuesday as traders and funds finalized preparations and positions for the October WASDE report on Wednesday. Wheat saw the largest losses but still traded an inside day on the charts, thanks to Monday’s 50+ cent gains. Corn futures pulled back as well but did not stray far from the $7.00 mark. Soybeans managed to find small gains despite weakness in soyoil and two-sided trade in soymeal. Funds were slight sellers across the board for the day but are still clinging to a large long position in corn heading into tomorrow’s report. The weekly Export Inspections report was once again neutral corn and wheat and bearish soybeans. Soybean inspections were up sharply from the prior week, but YTD sh...
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.