Mexico has been in the commodity news a lot recently, first due to its surge in imports from the U.S. and, this week, due to Trump’s threatened tariffs against the country. Given the importance of the country for U.S. grain and other agricultural exports (not to mention imports) WPI offers the following, brief update of the corn market dynamics faced by our southern neighbor.Mexico’s corn imports have grown significantly over the past 15 years due to a growing population and advances in livestock production. Mexico’s feed use of corn has grown at a 5.4 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) since 2010/11 while imports have posted a 7.7 percent CAGR. Since 2020/21, Mexico has imported 94 percent of its corn from the U.S. annually, with t...
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...
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