Monsanto today lowered its forecast for U.S. plantings of its Roundup Ready 2Xtend soybean this year from 3 million acres to 2 million acres. U.S. processors and exporters have indicated they will not buy any of the soybeans until a certain approval is issued. USDA Report’s Soy Highlights Today’s USDA WASDE report was a bit more bullish than the trade was expecting for 2015/16 but a bit less than this writer was expecting for 2016/17. It provided the first look at USDA forecasts for MY 2016/17, which is always interesting since the report is issued five months before the new marketing year begins. That will take some time to analyze, but following are some of the key items in the report for the current and next marketing years: 2015/16...
What You Need to Know Today: Chinese purchases of U.S. soybeans continued to accelerate, with USDA reporting another 558 KMT sold to China and 236 KMT to unknown destinations. Combined with sales announced Wednesday and Thursday, the latest purchases bring the three-day total to approximately...
As fall begins, wild migratory birds are starting their seasonal migration. That has the industry and government officials worried about the potential spread, again, of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Some members of Congress have called for the United States to be prepared for a pote...
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.