Soybeans added almost 59 cents/bushel this week and closed back above $17/bushel indicating demand remains strong even as carryover is predicted to rise. Soyoil gained 1.4 cents today to close at 80.95 cents/pound despite Indonesia reopening palm oil sales on Monday. Jakarta was pressured by demands from farmers and workers but will retain a domestic quota for output. There has also been an uptick in Ukraine’s sunflower seed and oil exports with 20,882 MT of sunoil exported last week and 61,932 MT month to date. However, that is still 10 percent lower than a year ago. China’s vegetable oil consumption fell statistically, with China’s National Grain and Oils Information Center (CNGOIC) saying the drop was due to COVI...
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.