Jul 24 Corn closed at $4.52/bushel, up $0.1275 from yesterday's close. Jul 24 Wheat closed at $6.395/bushel, down $0.0725 from yesterday's close. Jul 24 Soybeans closed at $12/bushel, up $0.2275 from yesterday's close. Jul 24 Soymeal closed at $362.8/short ton, up $3.3 from yesterday's close. Jul 24 Soyoil closed at 44.35 cents/lb up 1.22 cents from yesterday's close. Aug 24 Live Cattle closed at $177.475/cwt down $0.4 from yesterday's close. Aug 24 Feeder Cattle closed at $252.85/cwt down $1.975 from yesterday's close. Jul 24 Lean Hogs closed at $92.975/cwt up $0.775 from yesterday's close. Jul 24 WTI Crude Oil closed at $75.6/barrel up $1.53 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.