Export Sales and Shipments for December 20-26, 2024 Wheat: Net sales of 140,600 metric tons (MT) for 2024/2025--a marketing-year low--were down 77 percent from the previous week and 68 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 381,900 MT were up 2 percent from the previous week and 17 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to South Korea (85,900 MT), Mexico (76,800 MT), Thailand (66,900 MT), Italy (40,200 MT), and Taiwan (32,300 MT).Corn: Net sales of 777,000 MT for 2024/2025 were down 55 percent from the previous week and 44 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 1,002,500 MT were down 11 percent from the previous week and 9 percent from the prior 4-week average. The...
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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.