May 20 Corn closed at $3.3175/bushel, up $0.0175 from yesterday's close. May 20 Wheat closed at $5.565/bushel, up $0.0825 from yesterday's close. May 20 Soybeans closed at $8.635/bushel, up $0.09 from yesterday's close. May 20 Soymeal closed at $292.5/short ton, down $0.3 from yesterday's close. May 20 Soyoil closed at 27.41 cents/lb up 0.23 cents from yesterday's close. Jun 20 Live Cattle closed at $84.375/cwt down $2.3 from yesterday's close. May 20 Feeder Cattle closed at $118.95/cwt down $0.425 from yesterday's close. Jun 20 Lean Hogs closed at $48.675/cwt down $2.775 from yesterday's close. May 20 WTI Crude Oil closed at $23.71/barrel down $1.38 from yesterday's close. &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.