Overnight trading saw notably firmer prices with corn up 4 ¼ cents, soybeans up 5 ½ cents ,and SRW wheat up 8 cents. Forecasts for another heatwave across Europe (just as the region’s corn enters pollination and its spring wheat continues developing) were concerning, prompting higher trade. Higher European rapeseed futures pushed CBOT soybeans higher as well. Europe is looking at a heat wave that may break records, a situation that is hardly ideal for crop development. The day session saw some early strength in row crops, but demand-based selling pressure pushed corn and soybeans off the day’s highs. Trading was subdued overall with lack of fresh news and improved weather forecasts forcing trade to stay with...
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.