July 2026 total red meat and poultry stocks totaled 2.00 billion pounds, down 0.2 percent from June and 1.8 percent below July 2025 levels. The monthly decline contrasted with the typical 0.9 percent June-July increase and reflected a larger-than-seasonal drawdown in red meat inventories. Total red meat stocks fell 2.6 percent from June versus the average 1.5 percent decline but remained 1.7 percent above year-ago levels. Poultry stocks increased 1.7 percent for the month, slightly less than the typical 2.8 percent gain, and were 4.2 percent below July 2025. The report generally points to ...
WPI Grain Prices and Freight Rate App Note: you can also visit the app directly by clicking here. Supplemental Information The section below offers a concise view of the options available in the current version of the WPI FOB Price and Freight Rate app, along with a short “How To”...
What You Need to Know Today: Corn and soybeans were under heavy selling pressure as weaker (or at least as-expected) export demand runs into an accelerating harvest pace with more grain available in the spot market. Corn and soybean harvest progress remains below average across the U.S., espec...
Key Takeaways: Brazil confirmed a Newcastle disease outbreak at a commercial turkey farm in Santa Catarina on 18 October, raising concerns about potential disruptions to poultry exports despite the outbreak being confined to a single facility thus far. Mexico and Malaysia have imposed nationwi...
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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.