THE OPEN Nov beans: 1 higher Dec meal: .80 higher Dec soyoil: 20 lower Dec corn: 2 lower Dec wheat: 8 higher The market started the session as called, though trade turned choppy after the open. Oilshare was able to momentarily recover. Focus of trade is on Hurricane Ida and where its path is next. The trade remains mechanical as we enter first notice day and longs have to be out. More ideas of good yields tended to overpower the market as funds took advantage of slightly firmer bean prices to try to get something sold. More rains were due to hit Nebraska and portions of Wisconsin and Iowa over the next 24 hrs, construed as bearish by the trade. Headline stories included more repor...
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.