Russia Expects to Double Soybean Production by 2023 Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture predicts soybean production there will double from 4 MMT in 2018 to 8 MMT in 2023, which compares with only 2 MMT five years ago. The country wants to expand domestic production to reduce imports and boost exports of both soybeans and soy products.Soybeans are grown in the eastern part of the country as well as the Far East. A large share of those produced in the Far East are exported to China. Brazil’s Likely Next President Worrying China When China imposed an additional 25 percent tariff on U.S. soybeans, the government clearly determined that it could obtain most of the soybeans it needed from Brazil and Argentina. China has...
What You Need to Know Today: USDA reports are delayed until Tuesday due to the federal holiday on Monday. Over the weekend, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Russia warmly welcomed and confirmed this ceasefire by conducting more strikes against Ukraine. Specific...
On Saturday, 10 October, at a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, President Trump said that the U.S. and Mexico would come to terms on a new trade deal, and he said Canada does not need to be part of the deal. Trump called the coming agreement with Mexico “great” but gave no d...
Key Takeaways: The United States has steadily lost global wheat export market share since the 1970s, falling from the world's leading exporter to a projected fifth place in 2026/27. The rapid expansion of Black Sea wheat exports, driven by improved productivity and export infrastructure, has r...
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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.