Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA The Moroccan Government has increased its estimate of the grain crops as a result of very good growing weather. It expects that the total wheat and barley crop will reach 9.8 MMT which is 26 percent higher than last year. Common wheat is forecast at 4.8 MMT, corn at 2.4 MMT, and feed barley at 2.6 MT. The Moroccan government had also recently applied import duties on wheat and barley to protect the local crop – 135 percent for wheat and 170 percent for barley. Russian officials expect to ship up to 1 MMT of wheat to Algeria in 2021/22; this follows the initial shipment of 28,000 MT. Saudi Arabia reports it received its first shipment of wheat from its subsidiary i...
Weather concerns and the impacts of the war in Iran helped push wheat and corn to sharp gains Tuesday, with both markets blowing past key technical resistance levels. The weather is now coupled with geopolitical tensions that look increasingly hard to resolve, which is giving funds the perfect...
Congress is moving forward with its FY 2027 spending bills, while also still working to address FY 2026 funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which is still in a shutdown. The House Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee marked up and passed its FY 2027 bill. The House bill prov...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Tunisian researchers have been able to fully sequence the genomes of two local durum wheat types that have been grown in Tunisia for generations. They say that this “could be the key to developing more climate-resistant duru...
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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.