Where to begin? Weather is a constant variable, but politicians are also always in the competition. In the nomenclature of the trade, border measures have been a popular distortion this year. The biggest being Russia’s war and blockade of Ukrainian ports, that may now be temporarily solved. But there are many more to discuss this week. But first to Mother Nature herself. USA Crop Unlike wheat, soybean and soyoil prices held up today despite the announced new escape route for Ukrainian sunflower/products but soybean prices withered this week as a whole under the impending rainfall starting this weekend in the Midwest. Despite the caution that soybeans are made in August and the long-range forecast has conditions during that critical...
What You Need to Know Today: Russia rejected calls for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, including a proposal to halt attacks on civilian shipping that could help restore grain flows from Ukrainian ports. Tyson Foods announced plans to permanently close its Joslin, Illinois, beef processing facili...
The big news in the cattle markets yesterday was Tyson Foods’ move to close two more beef plants. One of them, the Joslin, Illinois, plant was shuttered immediately after the announcement. The other, in Eagle Mountain, Utah, is a case-ready plant that does not slaughter cattle. Tyson also...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Wednesday. In July, the CPI rose 0.1 percent, seasonally adjusted, and rose 3.4 percent over the last 12 months, not seasonally adjusted. The index for all items less food and energy, or the “core” infla...
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.