World Perspectives
livestock

North American Livestock; Conventional Egg Mandate

North American Livestock The semi-annual estimate of combined U.S. and Canadian swine and cattle herds was released yesterday. As of 1 January, all cattle and calves in the U.S. and Canada totaled 106 million or 101 percent of year-ago levels. As of December 2017, the inventory of all hogs and pigs in the two countries totaled 87.6 million head, which was 102 percent of the previous year and 106 percent of 2015. The North American swine herd has grown a cumulative 12 percent over the past five years versus 4 percent for the cattle herd. Swine efficiency was a major factor last year. The semi-annual pig crop of 80.8 million head was 102 percent of the same period a year prior and 105 percent of the second half of 2015. Semi-annual farrowin...

Related Articles
feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Summary of Futures

Jul 25 Corn closed at $4.47/bushel, down $0.04 from yesterday's close.  Jul 25 Wheat closed at $5.34/bushel, up $0.0375 from yesterday's close.  Jul 25 Soybeans closed at $10.5175/bushel, up $0.0325 from yesterday's close.  Jul 25 Soymeal closed at $296.4/short ton, up $2.7 from...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Volatility versus Fundamentals

Markets have been trending lower this week and while soybeans and SRW teased lower numbers this morning, both ultimately turned around and left corn and soyoil the lonely losers for the day. HRS continued to bounce on the lower crop rating early this week. In contrast to SRW and HRW, HRS is up...

livestock

Livestock Roundup: Chicken Weights Suggest Sandwich War Return

USDA updated its forecast for broiler production in 2025 and released its initial estimate for 2026. The 2025 estimate was revised lower by 260 million pounds and is now expected to be up just 1.1 percent from the previous year. At the beginning of the year, projections were for a 1.4 percent i...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Summary of Futures

Jul 25 Corn closed at $4.47/bushel, down $0.04 from yesterday's close.  Jul 25 Wheat closed at $5.34/bushel, up $0.0375 from yesterday's close.  Jul 25 Soybeans closed at $10.5175/bushel, up $0.0325 from yesterday's close.  Jul 25 Soymeal closed at $296.4/short ton, up $2.7 from...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Volatility versus Fundamentals

Markets have been trending lower this week and while soybeans and SRW teased lower numbers this morning, both ultimately turned around and left corn and soyoil the lonely losers for the day. HRS continued to bounce on the lower crop rating early this week. In contrast to SRW and HRW, HRS is up...

livestock

Livestock Roundup: Chicken Weights Suggest Sandwich War Return

USDA updated its forecast for broiler production in 2025 and released its initial estimate for 2026. The 2025 estimate was revised lower by 260 million pounds and is now expected to be up just 1.1 percent from the previous year. At the beginning of the year, projections were for a 1.4 percent i...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Crop Progress Silver Linings Pressure Corn, Soybeans

CBOT markets were mostly mixed in quiet trade overnight, but that tenor changed quickly once the day session started. The Crop Progress report initially appeared supportive for the major markets with planting slowing for corn and soybeans and corn and spring wheat conditions coming in below exp...

Image
From WPI Consulting

Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming

WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.

Search World Perspectives

Sign In to World Perspectives

Don’t have an account yet? Sign Up