USDA reduced the average U.S. soybean oil prices by 2 cents to 31.5 cents per pound. A notable change is a 1-million-ton reduction for palm oil production, mainly in Malaysia and Colombia, leading to a 19 percent year-over-year decline in global vegetable oil stocks...
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.
Corn Argentina Corn planting for Argentina’s 2026/27 commercial crop is now underway, with 1.5 percent of the projected 8.4 Mha already seeded. Progress is concentrated mainly in central-northern Santa Fe, where around 13 percent of the regional area has been planted. At the same time, fa...