SPREADS May crush falls to 97.88c/bu while oilshare strengthens to 32.57%. March/May corn trades to 2c inverse from 1 1/2c while July/Dec inverts to 1c from 1/2c. July/Nov beans strengthens into 1c from 3 1/2c. Bull spreads continue to be well supported given the lack of deliveries for wheat and corn. May wheat/corn corrects trading from 1.34 3/4c to 1.37 1/2c. July/Dec meal trades from $1.80 to $2.20. March /May wheat trades from a 2 1/2c inverse down to 1 1/2c. PALM OIL May closed up 22 ringgits, with cash offers $22.50/mt. Ahead of the monthly Malaysian palm oil board data, analyst's are forecasting end of Feb palm oil stocks at 1.73 mmt, down 1.4% from Jan figures.&nbs...
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.