Wheat Argentina’s wheat markets traded a pattern similar to the prior week’s, with small movement in the FAS and FOB markets. Brazilian millers appeared in the FOB market for 11.5 percent protein wheat with LH March and April shipment from Upriver ports. With some demand present, sellers decided to show more attractive offers to execute business. Offers and bids ended about $5-6/MT apart with bids at $260/MT and offers at $265/MT for LH March and $583 versus $263/MT for April. These prices were some $3-5/MT below early-week values. Farmers have already sold 10.3 MMT of wheat, which is more than 60 percent of the total production and recent weeks have seen farmers slow their sales rate. Exporters have purchase...
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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.