SPREADS May crush trades to 67c/bu while oilshare trades to 34.62%. Corn spreads continue to weaken post Feb. report with July/Dec trading down to 79 1/4c from highs over 93c. May/July corn remains fairly firm trading down to 14c from 14 3/4c contract highs. July/Nov bean trades down to 1.85 3/4c inverse from 1.91c. March/May beans inverse trades from 3 1/4c to 2 1/2c. May wheat/corn trades from 98c to 1.00 1/2c. PALM OIL April palm oil up 54 ringgits at 3,636 due a jump in Feb. 1-10 exports vs. a month ago. The Malaysian Palm Oil Board forecast Jan. ending stocks at 1.324 mmt, which is higher than expected at 1.287 mmt, and up from 1.265 mmt mo ago. Jan 2021 production was 1.126 mmt vs. 1...
The corn and soy complex closed higher, with the wheat market mixed, as winter wheat closed up but spring wheat and livestock ended lower. Part of the strength for corn and soybeans may have been a weather premium, as crop planting has started out fast but warm weather has been slow to develop...
Real GDP grew at a 2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2026, slightly below the consensus expectation of 2.3 percent but above the 0.5 percent growth in Q4 2025. The GDP number matches the average annualized pace of growth since the peak back in late 2007, right before the Financial P...
Reflect for a moment on what you eat. There is a lot of advice out there in the ether about what you should eat, but really, what do you currently eat and how much? The good people at the USDA have some data for you, to help you answer that question. USDA says that we eat quite a bit of meat. L...
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.