With exports at a standstill and with only domestic buyers, sugar prices in India have crashed and are likely to remain so in 2015/16 as oversupply has had a severe impact on the industry there. Now GOI is taking action to address the payments owed to the sugarcane producers. More Incentives for the Sugar Industry It seems there is no respite for the sugar industry in 2014/15. Production is now forecast at 27.96 MMT with consumption estimated at 24.3 MMT. The expected 2013/14 carryover of 7.14 MMT combined with the current 2014/15 surplus produces a total estimated carryover of 10.3 MMT. With exports at a standstill and with only domestic buyers, prices have crashed and are likely to remain so in 2015/16 as oversupply has severely impacte...
WPI Grain Prices and Freight Rate App Note: you can also visit the app directly by clicking here. Supplemental Information The section below offers a concise view of the options available in the current version of the WPI FOB Price and Freight Rate app, along with a short “...
What You Need to Know Today: Iran says its definition of the Strait of Hormuz is now a “vast operation area” that stretches from Jask to Siri Island. The White House said President Trump did not sign a suspension of the TRQs on beef imports but is “finalizing potential...
If the media headlines and Trump critics are to be believed, President Trump is headed to Beijing this Thursday in a weakened position. China is in control, it has the upper hand, and expectations are very low. These are the same critics that argue against overly simplistic zero-sum analyses in...
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.