SPREADS March crush falls again to 72c/bu while oilshare trades to 33.60%. Corn spreads remain in its congestive phase with July/Dec trading from 52c to 56c. March/May wheat trades slightly wider with the carry at 1/4c to 1 1/4c. March wheat/corn trades from 1.52c down to 1.45c. March/May bean spread inverts to 3c from 1c, while March/May meal trades from $2.10 inverse down to $1.50. PALM OIL March closed up 3 ringgits. NEWS The Dow is up 50 pts. US employers cut 140,000 jobs in December, the first monthly loss since the pandemic started. Unemployment remains unrevised at 6.7%. Crude oil continues its march upward, trading to $51.83/barrel. The US dollar trades down to 8...
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.