Mar 26 Corn closed at $4.3125/bushel, up $0.0375 from yesterday's close. Mar 26 Wheat closed at $5.525/bushel, up $0.1525 from yesterday's close. Mar 26 Soybeans closed at $11.3725/bushel, up $0.1325 from yesterday's close. Mar 26 Soymeal closed at $307.9/short ton, up $4.9 from yesterday's close. Mar 26 Soyoil closed at 57.54 cents/lb up 0.49 cents from yesterday's close. Apr 26 Live Cattle closed at $240.65/cwt down $0.325 from yesterday's close. Mar 26 Feeder Cattle closed at $365.725/cwt down $1.725 from yesterday's close. Apr 26 Lean Hogs closed at $91.825/cwt down $2.025 from yesterday's close. Mar 26 WTI Crude Oil closed at $62.93/barrel down $1.7 from yesterday's close. ...
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.