The CBOT finished sharply higher on Monday, with dry weekend weather starting and supporting what turned into a day of technical buying. Funds were aggressively covering their net short positions in corn and wheat and were adding to their small soybean long. The markets opened at the high end of expectations, with gapping higher at the open, which quickly triggered buy-stops and kept the upward momentum going. Corn, wheat, and soybeans all tested and overcame technically important levels today, triggering buy-stops again each time. The U.S. weather is a big concern for the CBOT. Dryness has been spreading across the Southern Plains and, more crucially for corn and soybean crops, western Iowa. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map highl...
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.