The CBOT was mostly higher to start the week with sharp rallies in soymeal and soybeans creating spillover buying for the rest of the grain markets. Funds were active buyers in both markets with strong spot demand for soymeal driving that market’s rally while soybeans rallied on Chinese buying and more poor weather for Brazil. Corn futures posted bullish days on the charts with the soybean rally and concerns for the Brazilian safrinha crop further extending the rally. Wheat futures had the most benign day as there was nothing fundamentally of interest for them, but they pushed higher amid the widespread buying. As WPI has noted repeatedly recently, CBOT futures are increasingly focused on U.S. export trends and the South American weat...
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.