THE OPEN November beans: 4 3/4 higher December meal: .10 higher December soyoil: 68 higher December corn: 2 1/4 higher December wheat: 10 higher The market opened as expected but profit-taking in grains sent futures into two-sided trade, while oilshare saw profit-taking as well. Weaker macro markets weighed on soyoil as worries over the economy continue. SOY The soy complex feature of the day was that of profit-taking in oilshare, with beans and meal supported. Oilshare gets hit as energies are in decline over worries about demand given the new cases of the Delta variant moving through, and possible new lockdowns. Sep crush trades to 1.26c/bu while oilshare trades to 46.94%. &nbs...
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.