SPREADS July crush trades to 52c/bu while oilshare sits at 38.31%. Nov/Jul bean inverse continues to weaken, trading down to 1.75 1/2c from 1.82 1/4c, while May/July trades from 8 1/4c to 7 1/4c. JulyDec meal inverse trades down to $28.50 from $30.50. May/July corn inverse trades to 15 1/4c from 15 3/4c, while July/Dec trades 71c to 68 1/2c. May/July soyoil trades from 2.56 down to 2.17. July wheat/corn trades from 75 3/4c to 81c. PALM OIL June palm oil closed down 173 ringgits/mt lower, ending at 3,574. NEWS Crude oil continues to congest around the $60/barrel level, trading up to $62.27/barrel today. The US dollar continues to firm, trading up to 93.24. Stocks are off...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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.