CBOT futures ended the day mostly higher with wheat leading the way amid rumors of an export ban from India and poor Oklahoma HRW yields. The wheat strength helped pull corn higher, along with rumors of Chinese buying interest this morning. The recent pullback in corn and soybean futures has, reportedly, prompted China to start inquiring for U.S. new crop corn and both old and new crop soybeans. The soy complex was mixed with soyoil rallying sharply while soymeal continued its technically-driven selloff. The dynamic of the two soy products left soybeans somewhat caught in the middle, though that market settled higher for the day. Funds were net wheat buyers for the day and secured some 10,000 contracts in that market. Funds also boug...
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.