It is as important to know when a trend is about to run its course as it is to know when one is about to take off.Investors and speculators are forever seeking to identify the next new market trend to climb and ride to a profitable reward. This constant search occurs equally as much in financial markets as it does in commodity markets. Whether it involves equities, bonds, interest rates or commodities, the old cliché that "the trend is your friend" is an obvious truism for traders. The search for trends may be based on different time frames. People with 401k or IRA accounts may be making conservative investment decisions as they look ahead at retirement years. Speculators willing to assume considerable risk may take positions in markets hop...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. weather is getting more attention this week as conditions vary greatly across the western, central, and eastern corn belts, with the different regions battling dryness and too much rain simultaneously. The ProFarmer Crop Tour began today in Indiana and Nebrask...
Key Takeaways: Argentina is on pace for a record corn crop and record exports in the current marketing year, with abundant supplies likely to keep the country highly competitive in global export markets. Argentina’s record exportable surplus is allowing it to offer highly competitive pri...
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.