There are really only two short-term issues left for the market to deal with over the next month or two. This is assuming that while there will certainly be changes in the corn and soybean yield estimates, those changes should not be big enough to singlehandedly affect prices. These two issues are the quarterly grain stocks report and what USDA does with planted acreage estimates for corn, soybeans and wheat.The quarterly USDA grain stocks report that will be released Monday 30 September will be more important for wheat than for corn. Because we are on the eve of harvesting a record corn crop, old crop tightness will suddenly disappear. Corn ending supplies will at least double in the new marketing year. Wheat supplies, on the other hand,...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. weather is getting more attention this week as conditions vary greatly across the western, central, and eastern corn belts, with the different regions battling dryness and too much rain simultaneously. The ProFarmer Crop Tour began today in Indiana and Nebrask...
Key Takeaways: Argentina is on pace for a record corn crop and record exports in the current marketing year, with abundant supplies likely to keep the country highly competitive in global export markets. Argentina’s record exportable surplus is allowing it to offer highly competitive pri...
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.