Stoller Enterprises, a Houston-based agronomic firm, announced yesterday that it was able to harvest 214.7 bushels of soybeans per acre (14.44 MT/hectare) in yield trials conducted at a farm in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. Huge U.S. Soybean Crop Gets Bigger As expected, USDA today raised its estimate for the current U.S. soybean crop to 3.913 billion bushels (106.5 MMT), 97 million bushels (2.64 MMT) greater than its August forecast. The average yield was increased by 1.2 bushels/acre to a record 46.6 bushels/acre (3.13 MT/hectare). USDA is forecasting total usage of U.S. soybeans in 2014/15 at 3.583 billion bushels (97.52 MMT). As a result, it is estimating U.S. soybean ending stocks on 31 August 2015 at 475 million bushels (12.93 MMT)...
What You Need to Know Today: The Trump administration announced new tariffs of 10 percent to 12.5 percent on imports from 60 major U.S. trading partners as part of a Section 301 action aimed at combating forced labor in global supply chains. Countries that have agreed to adopt and enforce bans...
Key Takeaways: Grain futures pulled back sharply in overnight trade Friday on rumors that Ukraine proposed two possible options for ensuring civilian vessel safety in the Black Sea. Both Russia and Ukraine have recently targeted civilian vessels carrying oil and grain in the Sea of Azov...
From WPI Consulting
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.