Export Sales and Shipments for January 26 to February 1, 2024 Wheat: Net sales of 378,400 metric tons (MT) for 2023/2024 were up 17 percent from the previous week, but down 6 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 314,700 MT were up 18 percent from the previous week, but down 11 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Indonesia (53,000 MT), Canada (42,500 MT), Nigeria (39,600 MT), Venezuela (33,000 MT), and the Philippines (33,000 MT). Corn: Net sales of 1,219,300 MT for 2023/2024 were up 1 percent from the previous week and 25 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 782,800 MT were down 14 percent from the previous week and 19 percent from the prior 4-we...
What You Need to Know Today: The hot, dry weather forecast continues to drive strength in grain futures with corn and soybeans hitting another day of strong gains. Monday’s Crop Progress and Conditions data were in line with market expectations and showed relatively few concerns for the...
Yesterday we wrote about the Q1 GDP numbers and the June employment reports in an article entitled Real GDP for Q1 Relying on AI Buildout, Held Back by Consumer Spending. That article mentioned that consumer spending had become a drag on GDP. Nonetheless, real GDP in Q1 was revised upward to 2...
Key Takeaways: The Middle East and North Africa's arid climate and limited water resources have created a structural dependence on imported wheat. Government wheat tenders in major importing countries serve as important benchmarks for global trade, providing insight into exporter competitivene...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.