China to Continue Importing U.S. Soybeans but Unlikely to Purchase More Bloomberg reported today that sources in China indicate state-owned enterprises COFCO and Sinograin intend to continue importing the soybeans already purchased from the U.S. However, the two companies have not been told to buy the remaining 6.653 MMT of the 20 MMT that China pledged to purchase during the trade negotiations that have now stalled. At that time, it had promised to buy/import 20 MMT of U.S. soybeans. USDA export sales report data indicates that 13.347 MMT were bought with 6.343 MMT of that shipped as of 16 May, leaving 7.004 MMT still to be exported. Trade sources indicate there are now seven vessels at PNW ports and nine at USG ports that are either load...
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.