SPREADS Dec crush trades to 1.21c/bu while oilshare trades up to 31.0%. Spreads are weaker with Dec/Dec corn trading down to 11 1/4c inverse from a morning high of 19 3/4c, while Dec/March trades out to a 3 1/2c carry for the first time since early October. Jan/March bean inverse trades down to 11 1/2c from 13c, and from report highs of 29c. Dec/March meal inverse is weaker but maintains a firm $19.10 to $17.10 trading range so far. Dec wheat/corn trades from 2.01 1/4c to 2.06 3/4c. PALM OIL Holiday NEWS The Dow was off 100 pts but has traded both sides into the morning hour. Crude is trading at $35.36/barrel on continuing demand concerns via Covid-19. Latest economic reports show that the econ...
What You Need to Know Today: USDA reports are delayed until Tuesday due to the federal holiday on Monday. Over the weekend, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Russia warmly welcomed and confirmed this ceasefire by conducting more strikes against Ukraine. Specific...
On Saturday, 10 October, at a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, President Trump said that the U.S. and Mexico would come to terms on a new trade deal, and he said Canada does not need to be part of the deal. Trump called the coming agreement with Mexico “great” but gave no d...
Key Takeaways: The United States has steadily lost global wheat export market share since the 1970s, falling from the world's leading exporter to a projected fifth place in 2026/27. The rapid expansion of Black Sea wheat exports, driven by improved productivity and export infrastructure, has r...
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.