With India's planted corn area down and production expected to be impacted by the effects of flooding and drought, several factors could limit any imports to meet demand. India’s Vegetable Oil Demand Rises; Shares of Traditional Oils Drop India’s edible oil imports in oil year 2016/17 (November-October) will likely reach 15MMT. They were at 1.336 MMT in August 2017, down from 1.489 MMT the previous month but higher than the 1.248 MMT in August 2016. They totaled 12.749 MMT during November 2016-August 2017, up from 12.165 during the same period a year ago, and another 2.3 MMT are expected in the remaining two months of the current oil year.From 2001/02 to 2015/16, vegoil consumption has risen from 10.125 MMT to 21.35 MMT or 7.39 percent pe...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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.