SPREADS Dec. crush trades to 1.00c/bu while oilshare trades to 46.42%. Dec/March corn trades from 9 1/2c to 9 3/4c, while Sep/Dec recovers from a trade that had been out to 16c, (trading 13 3/4c to 15c today). Dec/March wheat trades out to 11 1/2c carry from 10 1/2c. Dec wheat/corn trades from 2.11c down to 2.06 1/2c. Nov/Jan bean spread trades from 9 1/2c to 10 1/4c carry, while the Nov 21/Nov 22 inverse trades from 28 3/4c to 35 1/4c. Dec/March meal trades from $5.70 to $6.00. PALM OIL Nov. up 90 ringgits to close at 4,480 ringgit/mt. Malaysia's palm oil board forecasts 2021 production at 18.0 mmt, down 1.1 mmt from year ago. Exports for 2021 are forecast at 16.3 mmt, down from 17.3...
What You Need to Know Today: Record biofuel demand continues to support soyoil values, as EIA data show that May soyoil usage as a biofuel feedstock reached a record 1.434 billion pounds. The latest data reinforces the strength of renewable fuel demand and helps explain ongoing investment in a...
A bipartisan group of 26 lawmakers, led by Representative David Valadao (R-CA), sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and House Agriculture Committee Chair GT Thompson (R-Pennsylvania) requesting that $5 billion of the temporary economic assistance for farmers go toward spec...
Key Takeaways: Soyoil consumption as a biofuel feedstock climbed to a record 1.434 billion pounds in May, setting a new all-time monthly high. Improved 45Z policy clarity in February 2026 has supported stronger soyoil demand from the biofuel sector by providing producers with greater certainty...
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.