SPREADS November crush trades to 96c/bu while oilshare is 33.26 percent. Corn spreads stabilize with Dec 19/Dec 20 trading to 32 3/4c from lows of 34c, and an inverse before the Aug. 12 report. Dec/March corn tightens to 12 1/4c from 12 1/2c. Sep/Dec corn firms back into 10 1/4c from 11c. Dec wheat/corn trades from 1.02 1/4c to 1.03 3/4c. PALM OIL Down 28 ringgits NEWS Stocks are up 209 pts to start the day with support under energies with a high in crude at $55.67/barrel. The US dollar strengthens up to 98.33. June US housing starts were revised to -1.8 percent from 0.9 percent. CALLS Calls are higher across the board: beans: 4-6 higher meal: 1.20-1.50 h...
What You Need to Know Today: After a period of limited activity, USDA reported a sizeable 613 KMT in soybean export sales, including 330 KMT to China and 283 KMT to unknown destinations, potentially also China. The purchases represent a meaningful pickup in demand and bring China closer to ful...
Key Takeaways: Dry bulk markets remain mixed with Capesize vessels seeing continued pressure from weaker demand while fixtures and rate strength gradually increases towards the smaller vessel classes. Tanker markets are pulling back from their recent highs as tonnage moves out of the Mid...
The Trump import plan for 300,000 MT of beef supplies used for ground beef, i.e., lean trim, from September through November has, according to Secretary Brooke Rollins, brought some relief to beef prices. The Executive Order states that the Secretary of Agriculture will analyze and review the m...
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.