Export Sales and Shipments for January 9-15, 2026. Wheat: Net sales of 618,100 metric tons (MT) for 2025/2026 were up noticeably from the previous week and from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 372,400 MT were up 23 percent from the previous week, but down 3 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Mexico (113,900 MT), Japan (105,000 MT), Taiwan (54,100 MT), Colombia (30,600 MT), and Venezuela (28,400 MT). Corn: Net sales of 4,010,600 MT for 2025/2026--a marketing-year high--were up noticeably from the previous week and from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 1,433,800 MT were down 8 percent from the previous week and 6 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were prim...
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From WPI Consulting
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.