SPREADS July oilshare rises to 38.65% and crush trades up to 59c/bu. Spreads are firmer with July/Nov trading up to 1.44 1/2c from 1.36 1/2c, and May/July bean inverse trading up to 7 1/2c from 5 1/4c. July/Dec meal inverse strengthens to $17.30 from $12.50 lows. July/Dec corn inverse trades from 51c closing at 55 1/2c, with a 56 1/2c high. May/July corn trades up to 14 3/4c from 13c. July wheat/corn spread trades from 64 1/4c to 60 1/4c. PALM OIL June up 53 ringgits ending at 3,792.00 ringgit/mt. NEWS Equities are lower this AM, down 40 ringgits, as the G20 convenes to discuss the uneven covid-19 recovery. The IMF forecast US GDP to grow at 6.4% in 2021 vs. 5.1% forecast back in January. ...
The corn and soy complex closed higher, with the wheat market mixed, as winter wheat closed up but spring wheat and livestock ended lower. Part of the strength for corn and soybeans may have been a weather premium, as crop planting has started out fast but warm weather has been slow to develop...
Real GDP grew at a 2 percent annual rate in the first quarter of 2026, slightly below the consensus expectation of 2.3 percent but above the 0.5 percent growth in Q4 2025. The GDP number matches the average annualized pace of growth since the peak back in late 2007, right before the Financial P...
Reflect for a moment on what you eat. There is a lot of advice out there in the ether about what you should eat, but really, what do you currently eat and how much? The good people at the USDA have some data for you, to help you answer that question. USDA says that we eat quite a bit of meat. L...
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.