Dec 25 Corn closed at $4.34/bushel, up $0.02 from yesterday's close. Dec 25 Wheat closed at $5.3225/bushel, up $0.0325 from yesterday's close. Jan 26 Soybeans closed at $10.945/bushel, down $0.0075 from yesterday's close. Dec 25 Soymeal closed at $308.7/short ton, up $2.2 from yesterday's close. Dec 25 Soyoil closed at 50.16 cents/lb down 0.1 cents from yesterday's close. Dec 25 Live Cattle closed at $230.9/cwt up $4.325 from yesterday's close. Jan 26 Feeder Cattle closed at $334.025/cwt up $9.15 from yesterday's close. Dec 25 Lean Hogs closed at $80.775/cwt down $0.05 from yesterday's close. Dec 25 WTI Crude Oil closed at $60.36/barrel up $0.21 from yesterday's close. ...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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.