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Middle East, Mediterranean and Africa Regional Analysis

Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA/AFRICA – MEA REGION Egypt has a program that it says will reduce wheat imports and cut subsidies on bread. The plan is to blend wheat flour with local corn and sorghum flour. Savings, it is said, could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. However, millers and bakers say that this blending could result in poor quality flour and lower quality bread. As presented to millers and bakers, starting April 2025, 20 percent of the flour for subsidized bread will be from corn and sorghum. Several years ago, Egypt had a program for blending corn flour with wheat flour but industry pressure caused the program to be cancelled.   Egypt’s GASC reportedly booked 510,000 M...

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Market Commentary: Late Corn Rally; Soyoil Aborts Complex; Wheat Splits

A mostly bullish overnight session was not sustained, splitting the soy complex and wheat. Corn rallied late to avert a loss. The morning opened with USDA’s Export Sales report reflecting the turn by buyers to lower-cost sources. There was good volume trading corn and the soy complex, and...

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Summary of Futures

May 26 Corn closed at $4.435/bushel, up $0.015 from yesterday's close.  May 26 Wheat closed at $5.745/bushel, up $0.0475 from yesterday's close.  May 26 Soybeans closed at $11.635/bushel, down $0.015 from yesterday's close.  May 26 Soymeal closed at $320.9/short ton, down $0.9 fr...

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Export Sales

Export Sales and Shipments for February 13-19, 2026  Wheat: Net sales of 243,000 metric tons (MT) for 2025/2026 were down 16 percent from the previous week and 43 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 540,000 MT were up 67 percent from the previous week and 28 percent...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Late Corn Rally; Soyoil Aborts Complex; Wheat Splits

A mostly bullish overnight session was not sustained, splitting the soy complex and wheat. Corn rallied late to avert a loss. The morning opened with USDA’s Export Sales report reflecting the turn by buyers to lower-cost sources. There was good volume trading corn and the soy complex, and...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Summary of Futures

May 26 Corn closed at $4.435/bushel, up $0.015 from yesterday's close.  May 26 Wheat closed at $5.745/bushel, up $0.0475 from yesterday's close.  May 26 Soybeans closed at $11.635/bushel, down $0.015 from yesterday's close.  May 26 Soymeal closed at $320.9/short ton, down $0.9 fr...

feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Export Sales

Export Sales and Shipments for February 13-19, 2026  Wheat: Net sales of 243,000 metric tons (MT) for 2025/2026 were down 16 percent from the previous week and 43 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 540,000 MT were up 67 percent from the previous week and 28 percent...

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U.S. Soy & Product Export Trends

With soybean and soy product exports frequently in the headlines amid the ongoing tariff and policy shifts from Washington, examining export trends is increasingly important. Thursday’s updated Export Sales report from the USDA offered some interesting statistics for these markets, and WP...

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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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