Soybean Auction Falters To make way for recent purchases of U.S.-grown soybeans, Sinograin has been auctioning state-owned reserves of soybeans imported in earlier years. At its second auction, sales fell to 62 percent of the volume offered, versus 77 percent in the first auction. And the average price fell to RMB 3852 (USD547.42)/MT. The share sold of soybeans offered in the third auction dropped to 32.7 percent, and the price fell to RMB 3,750.83 (USD532.74)/MT. Some say the lower demand is the result of the large volume of soybeans imported in recent weeks from Brazil. Corn and Wheat Demand While China cancelled a tender for U.S. wheat and has plenty of corn, some say significant quality losses in the country’s corn and sprin...
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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.