WHEAT Harvest advanced 4.9 percent week over week, reaching 16.5 percent of the suitable area. The national average yield continued to rise as combines moved through the core production zones, now at 2.6 MT/ha. In the highest-productivity regions, cutting was still limited, but early tests pointed out encouraging results. Most of the crop has already moved beyond the critical yield-definition stage. The effect of recent frosts will become clearer once more fields are harvested, although flooding in Buenos Aires province appears more likely to slow fieldwork and increase disease pressure than materially reduce yields. The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange raised its production estimate to 24 MMT, up 2 MMT from the prior forecast, while the Rosario...
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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.