May 19 Corn closed at $3.61/bushel, up $0.01 from yesterday's close. May 19 Wheat closed at $4.645/bushel, up $0.04 from yesterday's close. May 19 Soybeans closed at $8.9525/bushel, up $0 from yesterday's close. May 19 Soymeal closed at $307.9/short ton, up $0.7 from yesterday's close. May 19 Soyoil closed at 28.95 cents/lb down 0.03 cents from yesterday's close. Jun 19 Live Cattle closed at $121.45/cwt up $1.025 from yesterday's close. May 19 Feeder Cattle closed at $150.5/cwt up $0.65 from yesterday's close. Jun 19 Lean Hogs closed at $98.5/cwt up $0.8 from yesterday's close. May 19 WTI Crude Oil closed at $63.81/barrel up $0.23 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.