Wheat has few friends on a good day, so it didn't have much of a chance to trade higher when corn and soybeans were both weak, which was the situation today. General Comments Markets were steady to slightly higher early in the Thursday evening session, but fund selling started to increase and the markets finished the session lower. The funds' selling was never considered heavy, although they were net sellers in everything except soyoil. Managed money is now long wheat, corn, soybeans, soyoil and soymeal, but all of those long positions were reduced slightly this week.There just wasn't much else to talk about today. Markets were strong Monday and most of Tuesday, but they softened considerably during the last half of the week. Weekly expor...
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.