Export Sales for Oct 28 to Nov 3, 2022 Wheat: Net sales of 322,500 metric tons (MT) for 2022/2023 primarily for unknown destinations (77,500 MT), South Korea (63,000 MT), Japan (60,600 MT), Thailand (55,800 MT), and Spain (20,000 MT - late), were offset by reductions for Colombia (500 MT) and Ecuador (100 MT). Export shipments of 151,500 MT were primarily to the Philippines (65,000 MT), Japan (38,000 MT), Mexico (18,100 MT), Ecuador (10,000 MT), and Colombia (9,500 MT). Corn: Net sales of 265,300 MT for 2022/2023 primarily for Mexico (157,500 MT, including decreases of 60,700 MT), Canada (48,800 MT, including decreases of 2,600 MT), Guatemala (29,500 MT), El Salvador (18,500 MT, including decreases of 14,000 MT),...
Russian Grain Markets: 29 June-3 July 2026 The new marketing season has officially begun in Russia, although bearish sentiment has been concentrated in the southern regions closest to the Black Sea ports, where export demand has been weakest. Delays in grain deliveries to inland elevators have...
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...
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.