It is safe to say that the soft global economy and currency gyrations will have some impact on world demand. However, predicting exactly how that happens and what the specific effect on overseas demand for U.S. grains and soybeans will be is sheer guesswork at this point.After USDA releases this month’s WASDE on 9 October with its latest production estimates for the 2015 U.S. corn and soybean crops, the futures market community will conclude that it has a pretty good handle on that production. Now that the 2014/15 carryout is fixed, total supplies of each will also be closely counted with only minor future variations likely.With supplies well in hand, analysts will turn to the other side of the supply/demand balance sheet. Admittedly, the d...
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...
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.