The CBOT was called mixed/lower to start today and it did just that. Corn and the soy complex were subject to fund selling and broke key technical support points while the wheat market strengthened on news of a Russian export quota. The livestock markets are in complete disarray and swung from wide losses to large gains today, before settling mostly lower. The CBOT remains mired in bearish sentiment and funds are aggressive net sellers. Grain market fundamentals are bearish with ethanol demand having been destroyed by crude oil prices and lack of driving in America. The financial plight of the livestock industry remains a headwind for grain demand as well. At this point, there needs to be a strong shift in the tide in the fight again...
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.