SPREADS Crush trades down to 91c/bu with oilshare at 45.89%. Spreads were firmer with Dec/March corn narrowing into 7c from 7 1/2c. Dec 21/Dec 22 trades from 26 3/4c to 24 1/4c inverse. Nov/Jan bean spread trades from 8 1/2c to 9c, while Nov 21/Nov 22 trades from 30c inverse to 34 3/4c. Dec/March wheat trades from 11 1/2c out to 12c carry. Dec wheat/corn trades from 1.80c down to 1.74c. PALM OIL Closed for public holiday. NEWS Stocks are slightly lower with crude oil trading down to $72.39/barrel. The US dollar is firmer up to 92.79, as there seems to be a bit of unwinding in this spread today. CALLS Calls are as follows: beans: 1-3 higher meal: 1.80-2.00 higher soyoil:&n...
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.