Jul 25 Corn closed at $4.455/bushel, up $0.03 from yesterday's close. Jul 25 Wheat closed at $5.2475/bushel, up $0.075 from yesterday's close. Jul 25 Soybeans closed at $10.7775/bushel, up $0.0525 from yesterday's close. Jul 25 Soymeal closed at $291.9/short ton, down $1.4 from yesterday's close. Jul 25 Soyoil closed at 52.32 cents/lb up 0.84 cents from yesterday's close. Jun 25 Live Cattle closed at $213.95/cwt down $2.375 from yesterday's close. Aug 25 Feeder Cattle closed at $301.975/cwt down $4.025 from yesterday's close. Jun 25 Lean Hogs closed at $98.85/cwt down $0.65 from yesterday's close. Jun 25 WTI Crude Oil closed at $62.94/barrel down $0.73 from yesterday's close. ...
Corn Argentina Argentina's corn harvest continued to advance at a moderate-to-slow pace, constrained by high moisture levels in both the grain and the fields. Harvest delays remain concentrated in the remaining early-planted corn in central and southern Buenos Aires. To date, harvesting has rea...
What You Need to Know Today: Crude oil prices dropped sharply with traffic flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. There were reports that Iran was behind an attack on a cargo ship near the coast of Oman, which would be a violation of the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran. Pr...
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.