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Mercosur Regional Analysis

Wheat As of the end of the first week of November, 12 percent of Argentina’s sown wheat area has already been harvested. Harvesting is progressing quickly in the country’s north, with yields that are low but within expectations. Although a few more weeks will pass before the harvest is widespread, the arrival of new wheat is becoming noticeable.On the one hand, the pace of farm sales continues to increase, with weekly sales reaching levels not seen in months. On the other, trucks are starting to arrive at the port with new crop wheat. Truck arrivals at ports for the first week of November were the largest in seven years. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean all of it is new crop wheat; some may still be from the previous season. Alth...

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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.

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