The CBOT was mostly higher to start the week with fresh daily export sales announcements and a solid Export Inspections report underpinning the day’s moves. While corn, soybeans, and KC wheat all settled higher for the day, gains were muted as few traders were interested in adding significant risk heading into the November WASDE on Friday. The markets seemed to have a “wait and see” attitude regarding the fundamentals, with traders wondering if the strong demand will be sufficient to offset large supplies and support prices. Livestock futures turned lower for the day as technical selling continued amid concerns about weaker meat demand. As is expected for this time of year, soybeans were the star of the Export Inspection report with ov...
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.