The November WASDE report may be overshadowed by the election results but important international production revisions are possible. Dry weather in South America and Europe...Wednesday’s USDA reports will be mostly obscured by tomorrow’s presidential election results, but the reports will be released anyway. The U.S. corn and soybean yields and crop production estimates will be updated as will world production estimates and, lastly, the WASDE numbers will be revised. Remember, because there are no yield or production revisions in the December WASDE, the coming November estimates are “it” until we get the “final” production estimates on 12 January, 2017.The market’s opinion since the October report is that the USDA will most likely reduce th...
What You Need to Know Today: A third U.S. border crossing (Columbus, New Mexico) has reopened to Mexican cattle imports following nearly two years of restrictions related to New World screwworm. The reopening could gradually improve feeder cattle availability, although more than 60 confi...
Yesterday, the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released a new report of negotiated cash purchases of cattle under the mandatory price report. The report included Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas. The goal of the report was to solve the confidentiality issues e...
Key Takeaways: U.S. soybean crushing began in 1911 and saw its most rapid expansion during the 1930s amid the broader agricultural and technology revolutions of the time. After peaking in the early 2000s, the soybean crushing industry went through a downturn as poor crush margins forced...
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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.