SPREADS May crush trades to 91.22c/bu, while oilshare is weaker, trading back below 34.0% to 33.87%. Corn spreads weaken with July/Dec trading out to 3c from 2 1/4c. March/May corn trades from 4 1/4c to 4 1/2c. July/Nov beans widen back out to 9 1/4c from 7c. March/May wheat inverse declines from 1 1/4c from 2 1/4c. PALM OIL Futures fell their hardest in three weeks hit by fears of higher production and slowing demand from India and China. Cash was off $20/mt finishing at $665.00/mt. NEWS Stocks and commodities are higher today, with the Dow up 60 pts and crude trading to $53.01/barrel. The US dollar trades up to 99.58. The US dollar remains firmer against a continuing 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.