Regional Updates MIDDLE EAST/MEDITERRANEAN COMMENTS Egypt’s supply minister said that the government’s grain storage capacity totals 4.1 MMT and the private sector has an additional 12.3 MMT of capacity. He also noted that the government will be “modernizing many silos and upgrading older facilities.” Egypt has announced it will shortly issue a “guide on wheat imports” that will detail all specifications, procedures and regulations. Recent rejections of such imports are said to have been caused by “erratic inspection procedures.” According to the supply minister, the problem with inspections was “an abuse of power.” India has reportedly sent its first shipment of wheat to Afgha...
Key Market Insights Macros: Inflation isn’t cooling — it’s moving higher again. March PCE inflation (Personal Consumption Expenditures index — the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation) rose 0.7 percent month-over-month, pushing the annual rate to 3.5 percent, the h...
An amendment to the U.S. House farm bill, aiming to remove the Save Our Bacon Act language in Section 12006 that would have stripped language to prohibit California’s Proposition 12, Massachusetts’ Question 3, and up to 500 state agricultural laws across the country, was blocked by...
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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.