Dec 23 Corn closed at $4.75/bushel, down $0.0375 from yesterday's close. Dec 23 Wheat closed at $5.6175/bushel, up $0.055 from yesterday's close. Jan 24 Soybeans closed at $13.15/bushel, up $0.045 from yesterday's close. Dec 23 Soymeal closed at $430.4/short ton, down $0.6 from yesterday's close. Dec 23 Soyoil closed at 49.9 cents/lb down 1.52 cents from yesterday's close. Dec 23 Live Cattle closed at $183.625/cwt up $0.075 from yesterday's close. Jan 24 Feeder Cattle closed at $238.025/cwt up $0.825 from yesterday's close. Dec 23 Lean Hogs closed at $70.15/cwt down $1.575 from yesterday's close. Dec 23 WTI Crude Oil closed at $80.9/barrel down $0.12 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.