USDA’s September WASDE outlook for 2026/27 U.S. soybeans is for reduced ending stocks by 10 million bushels to 310 million. The U.S. season-average soybean price is forecast at $12.00 per bushel, up $0.60 from last month: Soybean meal price is increased $30 to $340 per short ton, and the soybean oil price is unchanged at 70 cents per pound. Global soybean ending stocks are reduced 0.2 million metric tons to 124.0 million – primarily due to lower stocks for the United States...
What You Need to Know Today: Corn and soybean yields in the September WASDE report were close to pre-report expectations. The corn yield came in at 178.5 bushels per acre, compared with an average analyst estimate of 178.1, while the soybean yield was 52.8 bushels per acre, slightly abov...
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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.