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Nevil C. Speer, PhD, MBA
Western Kentucky University
Addressing Cow Herd Management
and Business Issues:
Corn Economy
60th
Annual Florida Beef
Cattle Short Course
Gainesville, Florida
May 4-6, 2011
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Weekly Omaha Corn ($/bu)
1.00
2.00
3.00
4.00
5.00
6.00
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Corn: Total Use / Disappearance vs Carryover (Adapted from USDA)
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Feed/Residual vs. Ethanol Utilization (~ 45 and 43%, respectively, of total use)
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Carryover vs. Price (89/90-05/06 vs 06/07-11/12)
1.50
2.50
3.50
4.50
5.50
6.50
4% 8% 12% 16% 20% 24%
Co
rn P
rice (
$/b
u)
Stocks/Use
89/90 - 05/06 06/07 - 11/12
Steeper regression? More volatility?
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Corn Futures Weekly Change (Nearby)
0.00
0.10
0.20
0.30
0.40
0.50
0.60
0.70
0.80
0.90
1.00
2000-2005 Average Weekly Move: 5.8 cents
Average Weekly Move: 2006 = 9 cents
2007 = 16 cents 2008 = 28 cents 2009 = 14 cents 2010 = 13 cents
2011 to date: 22 cents
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Corn: May ‘11 (Week ending 4/29/2011)
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Commitment of Traders Corn Futures (CBOT / CME Group)
Open Interest, Commercial Short, Non-commercial Long
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ou
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Corn (Omaha) vs. Wheat (KC) and SB (Ctrl IL) Ratios – 6-mo Moving Average
1.00
1.50
2.00
2.50
3.00
3.50
4.00
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CORN: EXPORTS
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0
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20,000
30,000
40,000
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60,000
70,000
80,0002000/2001 2010/2011
Annual Corn Acreage (000 acres)
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Corn Exports (000 MT)
0
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10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
30,000
35,000
40,000
45,000
50,0002000/2001 2010/2011
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Corn Imports (000 MT)
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
16,000
18,0002000/2001 2010/2011
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U.S. Corn Exports By Destination
2009 / 10 Marketing Year (000 MT)
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
16,000
18,000 ~ 1.78 B bu = 90% of all exports
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World Corn Supply and Use (09/10) Million Metric Tons
(MMT) Beginning
Stocks Production Imports
Domestic
Feed 2/
Domestic
Total 2/ Exports
Ending
Stocks
World 3/ 147.82 812.38 89.79 482.7 815.66 96.89 144.54
United States 42.5 332.55 0.21 130.57 281.42 50.46 43.38
Total Foreign 105.32 479.83 89.58 352.12 534.24 46.43 101.16
Major Exporters 5.11 36.22 0.28 9.7 17.3 18.5 5.8
Argentina 0.99 22.8 0.25 5 6.9 16.5 0.64
South Africa 4.11 13.42 0.03 4.7 10.4 2 5.16
Major Importers 18.22 107.06 52.24 112.16 160.36 3.42 13.74
Egypt 1.4 6.82 5.83 10.1 12.5 0.02 1.53
EU-27 6/ 6.15 57.15 2.93 45 60 1.52 4.71
Japan 1 0 15.98 11.4 16 0 0.98
Mexico 3.56 20.37 8.3 14.2 30.2 0.64 1.39
Southeast Asia 7/ 4 22.61 6.22 20.6 28.6 1.24 2.99
South Korea 1.47 0.08 8.46 6.36 8.41 0 1.59
Selected Other 0
Brazil 12.08 56.1 0.55 40 47 11.6 10.13
Canada 1.83 9.56 2.1 7.65 11.61 0.13 1.76
China 53.17 158 1.3 112 159 0.15 53.31 FSU-12 1.58 18.04 0.23 11.3 12.92 5.6 1.34
Ukraine 0.73 10.5 0.01 4.8 5.5 5.07 0.67
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China Corn Imports (000 MT)
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China: Commercial Hog Production (Rebecca Bratter, Director Trade Development, U.S. Grains Council,
USDA Outlook Forum Presentation, 2011)
0%
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20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
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Soybean Imports (000 MT)
5,000
15,000
25,000
35,000
45,000
55,000
65,000
China EU-27 Others (10 countries)
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Soybean Exports (000 MT)
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
30,000
35,000
40,000
45,000
50,000United States Brazil Argentina Others (10 countries)
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Annual Soybean Acreage (000 acres) ’10: US = ~76.5 mil acres / China = ~21.7 mil acres
Brazil & Argentina Combined: ‘99 = 54.8 mil acres / ‘10 = 105.8 mil acres
15,000
25,000
35,000
45,000
55,000
65,000
75,000
85,000
95,000
105,000
115,000United States Brazil/Argentina China
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THE INFLUENCE
OF ETHANOL
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Jan. 1 Annual Ethanol Capacity (mil gal) Adapted from Renewable Fuels Association (RFA)
1500
3500
5500
7500
9500
11500
13500
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Ethanol – General Observations
• Profitability / Sustainability – Mandates – Corn Price – Ethanol / Gas Margin
• 45-cent / gal tax credit • Ethanol π up to a 45-cent premium over gas
• 150 B gal annual fuel use – E10 represents 15 B gal – Nearing blend wall
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Ethanol Plant Alternative Scenarios: Crude, Gasoline and Shutdown Price of Corn
Source: Darrell Good and Scott Irwin, UofI (March , 2011)
Crude Oil Price
($/bbl)
Wholesale
Gasoline Price ($/gal)
Shutdown Price of Corn for Ethanol
Plants ($/bu)
75 2.00 5.89
95 2.50 7.84
110 3.00 9.78
130 3.50 11.72
150 4.00 13.66
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Ethanol Profitability Source: USDA AMS Iowa Ethanol Report, EIA
$-
$0.50
$1.00
$1.50
$2.00
$2.50
$3.00
$ p
er
ga
llo
n
Return Over Total Cost
Return Over Variable Cost
Return Over Grind Margin
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2010/11 Ethanol Production (USDA Target = 13.5 B gal or 5 B bu @ 2.7 conversion rate)
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2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Bil
lio
ns
Annual pace for 13.6 billion
gallons: Add’l 39 mil bu
over USDA estimates
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Ethanol Plant Locations (Source: RFA) (Implications for E85)
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NEW DYNAMICS
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Financial Ramifications Markets Always Uncertain…
What’s New is Amplified Volatility! • 25,000 head feedyard
• Daily corn usage: 7-8,000 bu
• Equivalent to 675,000 quarterly
• Current moving average = 30 cents
• Wrong decision: ~$200,000+
– For just one quarter!!!!
– $4/head over 2 turns
– Potentially wipes out
annual profit
Purchasing inputs is increasingly time consuming and complex
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Capital Requirements
• $1/bu = ~$55/head (750-lb yearling)
• 30,000 head feedyard = $1.65 mil!!!
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Weekly TX Triangle Corn Differential
($/bu: Basis Omaha) 52-week moving average
0.00
0.20
0.40
0.60
0.80
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NE / IA / SD Aggregate COF Population % of U.S. Total (2010 through May) / Adapted from USDA:NASS
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WHERE TO….?
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WASDE On the radar: 2011/12 WASDE – May 11, 2011!!!!
09/2008 Est.10 /2009 .Proj11 /2010
Area Planted (mil acres) 86 86.4 88.2 Area Harvested 78.6 79.5 81.4 Yield per Harvested Acre (bu) 153.9 164.7 152.8 Beginning Stocks (mil bu) 1624 1673 1708 Production 12092 13092 12447 Imports 14 8 20 Supply, Total 13729 14774 14175 Feed and Residual 5182 5140 5150 Food, Seed & Industrial 2/ 5025 5939 6400 Ethanol & by-products 3/ 3709 4568 5000 Domestic, Total 10207 11079 11550 Exports 1849 1987 1950 Use, Total 12056 13066 13500 Ending Stocks 1673 1708 675
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USDA Quarterly Grain Stocks Report (B bu) March 1, 2011
3.1458 3.1388
4.5480
3.3840
2010 2011
On farms Off farms
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Corn/Wheat/Soybean Acreage (mil acres) 1996 = 218.5 mil acres vs. 2011 = 227 mil acres
50
60
70
80
90
Corn Soybeans Wheat
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Soil Moisture / Temperature
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Crop Progress: Percent Planted Date % Planted 5-year Avg
4/17/2011 7 8 4/24/2011 9 23 5/2/2011 13 40 5/9/11 ??? ~65
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Corn Yield Trend (bu/acre)
80
90
100
110
120
130
140
150
160
170
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Corn Production: Varying Acreage (mil acre) and Yield Estimates (bu/acre) - 92% Harvest
12
12.5
13
13.5
14
14.5
15
88 90 92 94 96
To
tal P
rod
ucti
on
(b
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on
bu
)
Acreage(mil acre)
155 160 165
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Grains
Meats
Speculators Fundamentals
Ag Commodities Traditional Model Internal Drivers Only
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Ethanol
Energy
Markets
Forex Financialization / Money Flow /
Globex
Globalization
Ag Commodities
Ag Commodities New Model of Complexity
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Business Transition: Black Swans
“What you really want to plan for are ‘what ifs’ rather than counting on a linear forecast of what’s going to happen.” Gerald Greenwald, Founding Principal, Greenbriar Equity Group LLC Former Chairman and CEO, UAL Corp Former Vice-Chairman, Chrysler Bloomberg on the Economy; Jan 13, 2009
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A Matter Of Perspective: Duck or Rabbit?
• The wrong question:
– What’s the market going to be?
• Implies single mindset of being price taker
• Myopic: doing what we’ve always done
• The right question:
– What’s the business environment telling us?
– How will we construct our marketing and management decisions around those signals?
– Where do new opportunities lie?
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Always remember, it’s the worry you haven’t even thought to worry about
that should worry you the most! Clarice Bean, Don’t Look Now (Lauren Child)
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Monthly Market Profile
Beef Biz
AgSight
Nevil C. Speer, PhD, MBA
Western Kentucky University