Export Sales for March 18-24, 2022. Wheat: Net sales of 95,000 metric tons (MT) for 2021/2022 were down 39 percent from the previous week and 58 percent from the prior 4-week average. Corn: Net sales of 636,900 MT for 2021/2022 were down 35 percent from the previous week and 53 percent from the prior 4-week average. Soybeans: Net sales of 1,305,800 MT for 2021/2022 were up noticeably from the previous week and up 11 percent from the prior 4-week average. Soybean Cake and Meal: Net sales of 103,000 MT for 2021/2022 were down 61 percent from the previous week and 50 percent from the prior 4-week average. Soybean Oil: Net sales of 30,900 MT for 2021/2022 were up noticeably...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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.