Export Sales and Shipments for July 11-17, 2025 Wheat: Net sales of 712,200 metric tons (MT) for 2025/2026 were up 44 percent from the previous week and 50 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 761,000 MT were up 76 percent from the previous week and 80 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Nigeria (165,800 MT), Mexico (148,000 MT), Indonesia (72,200 MT), Taiwan (53,700 MT), and Chile (51,900 MT). Corn: Net sales of 643,100 MT for 2024/2025 were up noticeably from the previous week, but down 2 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 1,058,600 MT were down 13 percent from the previous week and 27 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations wer...
Markets have no shortage of headlines today, but the reaction depends on what sits underneath them. Strong economic growth comes with renewed inflation pressure. Higher crude inventories do little to solve tight diesel supplies. Rain is delaying one crop while helping another, and trade expecta...
Key Takeaways: DDGS prices have been pushing higher this summer as corn, soybean meal, and other feedstuff values have surged amid strong export demand and supply concerns. WPI’s models anticipate additional gains for DDGS values heading into early 2027, with FOB plant prices reach...
Key Takeaways: China has made significant progress toward corn self-sufficiency, with production projected to reach a record 307.0 MMT in 2026/27 while imports have fallen sharply from their 29.5 MMT peak in 2020/21. Strengthening food security has become an important priority for China, with...
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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.