Mar 25 Corn closed at $4.435/bushel, down $0.015 from yesterday's close. Mar 25 Wheat closed at $5.45/bushel, down $0.05 from yesterday's close. Jan 25 Soybeans closed at $9.7675/bushel, down $0.0525 from yesterday's close. Jan 25 Soymeal closed at $287.2/short ton, up $0.3 from yesterday's close. Jan 25 Soyoil closed at 40.62 cents/lb down 1.1 cents from yesterday's close. Feb 25 Live Cattle closed at $189.75/cwt down $0.225 from yesterday's close. Jan 25 Feeder Cattle closed at $257.475/cwt up $1.925 from yesterday's close. Feb 25 Lean Hogs closed at $83.2/cwt down $0.35 from yesterday's close. Jan 25 WTI Crude Oil closed at $70.21/barrel down $0.5 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.