Export Sales and Shipment for December 6-12, 2024.Wheat: Net sales of 457,900 metric tons (MT) for 2024/2025 were up 58 percent from the previous week and 16 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 405,700 MT were up noticeably from the previous week and up 49 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Venezuela (80,800 MT), Japan (66,000 MT), Mexico (60,100 MT), Thailand (59,300 MT), and El Salvador (50,000 MT).Corn: Net sales of 1,174,600 MT for 2024/2025 were up 24 percent from the previous week, but down 10 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 1,054,500 MT were down 11 percent from the previous week, but up 1 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations w...
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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.