Overnight trade saw short covering and corrective trade in corn, soybeans, and wheat but only the former two markets were able to hold their gains. Soybeans saw a bullish day from the confluence of three factors – the NOPA crush report, fresh “flash” export sales, and President Trump’s comments about a U.S.-Indonesia trade deal – each of which is discussed in more detail below. The news sent soybeans 18 cents higher and pulled soymeal off recent contract lows on a redoubled demand outlook. Corn futures saw continued short covering on mild weather concerns as the U.S. crop hits peak silking this week and from pure technical trade. Wheat futures failed to find much fundamental news in their own right, which resul...
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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.