Crude oil was soaring today with gains of more than $2.00 a barrel, and that set the tone for everything else. However, corn couldn’t follow wheat or soybeans higher today until some late buying at the close. General Comments Crude oil was soaring today with gains of more than $2.00 a barrel, and that set the tone for everything else. The strength in crude was the result of perceptions that the world’s economic growth could be better than expected. There was also renewed optimism that some sort of production cap agreement will be reached at the Doha meeting on 17 April. U.S. equity markets followed crude oil higher with big gains early, but those turned into small gains by midday.Grain and oilseed markets were mixed overnight with soybean...
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.