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Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Morocco’s National Federation of Millers has advised that current wheat stocks will cover up to five months of cosumption and added that the current duty-free wheat imports through September will increase the stock level. Egypt’s annual food price inflation is now at 68.2 percent in July. Poultry and meat prices are up by 93.4 percent, seafood and fish up by 83.4 percent, dairy products up by 64.7 percent, and bread and baked goods up by 55.7 percent. The total annual inflation rate for all items is 38.2 percent. Egypt, UAE’s Al Dahra and the Abu Dhabi Exports Office finalized the arrangement for $500 million in wheat supply over five yea...

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Export Sales

Export Sales and Shipments for November 29-December 5, 2024.Wheat: Net sales of 290,200 metric tons (MT) for 2024/2025 were down 23 percent from the previous week and 31 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 198,900 MT were down 38 percent from the previous week and 33 perc...

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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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