SPREADS August crush trades to 90.51c/bu while oilshare trades to 48.29%. August / Nov bean inverse trades from 54 1/2c to 52 1/4c, while Sep/Nov trades from 8c down to 6 1/2c. Sep/Dec meal carry trades from $3.50 out to $4.90. Sep/Dec wheat trades from 6c to 7 1/2c carry. Sep/Dec corn inverse weakened to 10 3/4c from 12 1/4c, while Dec/March corn carry trades into 7 1/4c from 7 3/4c. Dec wheat/corn trades from 1.16 1/4c down to 1.08c. PALM OIL Sep. up 144 ringgits/mt to 3.977. India's palm oil and soyoil imports plunged by nearly a quarter in June vs. a month ago, as refiners postponed purchases anticipating a reduction in the export tax. Imports were 24% lower than a month ago to 587,467 ton, w...
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.