Wheat spent the session mostly higher while corn, soybeans, and soymeal bounced around treading lower but eking out gains later in the action. Part of this was position squaring ahead of tomorrow’s July WASDE report by USDA. It will be a bull/bear square off with any surprise to the bullish direction. Export Sales The morning opened with USDA’s Export Sales report for last week. Old crop corn sales rebounded with Mexico and Japan as big buyers. But new crop sales were also sizeable and collectively added up to over 2 MMT. Strong shipments indicate prior sales are not being abandoned. Combined old and new crop soybean sales were steady with new crop soybean sales remaining ahead of last year despite the absence of China in...
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.