Export Sales and Shipments for November 8-14, 2024. Wheat: Net sales of 549,600 metric tons (MT) for 2024/2025 were up 45 percent from the previous week and 29 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 133,900 MT--a marketing-year low--were down 56 percent from the previous week and 49 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to South Korea (55,700 MT), Venezuela (33,700 MT), Mexico (22,100 MT), Taiwan (20,700 MT), and Vietnam (1,200 MT). Corn: Net sales of 1,494,600 MT for 2024/2025 were up 14 percent from the previous week, but down 40 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 957,000 MT were up 37 percent from the previous week and 13 percent from the prior...
Weather concerns and the impacts of the war in Iran helped push wheat and corn to sharp gains Tuesday, with both markets blowing past key technical resistance levels. The weather is now coupled with geopolitical tensions that look increasingly hard to resolve, which is giving funds the perfect...
Congress is moving forward with its FY 2027 spending bills, while also still working to address FY 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is still in a shutdown. The House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and passed its FY 2027 bill. The House bill prov...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Tunisian researchers have been able to fully sequence the genomes of two local durum wheat types that have been grown in Tunisia for generations. They say that this “could be the key to developing more climate-resistant duru...
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Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.