The CBOT was mixed on Wednesday with wheat futures following through on Tuesday’s bullish technical reversal after Stats Canada forecast a 34-MMT all-wheat wheat crop, which was below traders’ expectations. That, combined with weather issues for some major wheat growing/exporting countries, helped put a bid under the wheat market. Corn and soybeans, however, could find no similar strength with favorable Midwest rains and record yield forecasts still limiting traders’ appetites for long risk exposure. Funds were flat or slight net sellers in corn and the soy complex for the day while buying back some 7-8,000 contracts of wheat. Bloomberg reported that the Chinese government has asked traders to pare back on imports o...
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.