Last week was a short one for trading with Monday having been an Argentine holiday and Thursday marking the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. Markets were, of course, extremely volatile on Friday, and these factors combined to keep developments limited in both FAS and FOB markets. Wheat Good weather conditions (dry with high temperatures) plus adequate grain moisture is allowing the wheat harvest to move at full speed. With a weakly progress of 15.2 percent, the total harvest reached almost 33 percent of the planted area. The biggest progress was in the nucleus region where yields are above expectations. The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange increased its estimate of the crop from 19.8 MMT to 20.3 MMT, but the market still thinks it will...
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.