Bank liquidity issues and collapses remain at the forefront of the market’s collective mind with investors increasingly looking for safe-haven assets and “risk off” trades. That has exerted some influence on the ag markets, with livestock futures being the primary recipient of the punishing, risk-off trade. Grain futures have held up better than expected, possibly due to their perception as a hedge against macro-market declines and volatility. There was little fresh news specifically about ag commodities on Wednesday, except for another fresh round of corn sales to China, which left ag markets to trade their recent technical developments. For wheat and corn, that meant higher trade while soybeans and soymeal settled lower...
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.