SPREADS July crush margins continue to fall, now trading below 1.00c/bu to 98.48c/bu. July oilshare firms to 31.36%. July/Dec corn strengthens from its lows of 15c to 14 1/2c, while May/July trading from 5 1/2c from 6c. July/Nov bean spread trades out to 4 1/2c carry from 3 1/4c, and values that were at an inverse last week. May/July beans trades out to 6 1/4c from 5 1/2c. July/Dec meal widens out to a $3.40 carry from $2.60. May wheat/corn sees a correction, trading down to 2.19c from 2.24 3/4c. PALM OIL June up 65 ringgits. Ahead of this week's Malaysian Palm Oil Board data release, analysts are forecasting March ending stocks at 1.65 mmt, down 1.9% from Feb., and if realized would...
What You Need to Know Today: Russia rejected calls for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, including a proposal to halt attacks on civilian shipping that could help restore grain flows from Ukrainian ports. Tyson Foods announced plans to permanently close its Joslin, Illinois, beef processing facili...
The big news in the cattle markets yesterday was Tyson Foods’ move to close two more beef plants. One of them, the Joslin, Illinois, plant was shuttered immediately after the announcement. The other, in Eagle Mountain, Utah, is a case-ready plant that does not slaughter cattle. Tyson also...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Wednesday. In July, the CPI rose 0.1 percent, seasonally adjusted, and rose 3.4 percent over the last 12 months, not seasonally adjusted. The index for all items less food and energy, or the “core” infla...
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.