Ever since USDA began providing this year's first weekly crop condition reports up to the present, the conditions reported for corn and soybeans have sparkled, and markets have acknowledged the (so far) good-looking prospects for both crops.The holiday weekend came and went without any significant change in the weather outlook for the central U.S. That is to say, temperatures are to remain relatively cool for mid-summer, and sunshine should be abundant with a rain event likely to move across every few days. June was extremely wet over most of the Corn Belt, which has wiped out any lingering pockets of drought and left the best soil moisture conditions in many years. The water-logged upper Midwest should dry out rather quickly. It would be h...
What You Need to Know Today: Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans continued to accelerate, with USDA reporting another 558 KMT sold to China and 236 KMT to unknown destinations. Combined with sales announced Wednesday and Thursday, the latest purchases bring the three-day total to approximately...
Key Takeaways: With the fall calf run now upon us, producers are finally getting a glimpse of what their realized profits will be for 2026. Some producers may have already obtained a strong estimate of 2026 revenues, especially if calves were forward sold in, for example, the mid-summer...
As fall begins, wild migratory birds are starting their seasonal migration. That has the industry and government officials worried about the potential spread, again, of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Some members of Congress have called for the United States to be prepared for a pote...
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.