U.S. Soy Export Sales Highlights Today’s USDA export sales highlights confirmed the week ending 6 August was a fantastic one for exporters of U.S. soybeans and a good one for export sales of U.S. soymeal. The large sales and exports of soybeans of last week have been followed by additional large sales in the current week. Net soybean export sales last week for shipment in 2019/20 totaled 570,100 MT. Sales for shipment in 2020/21 totaled 2,839,400 MT. The sales for shipment in 2019/20 were for China (420,500), the Netherlands (144,300 MT), Japan (64,500 MT), Egypt (49,600 MT), and Taiwan (20,300 MT).Those sales were partially offset by reduction for unknown destinations of 191,000 MT. The sales for shipment in 2020/21 mainly were for...
What You Need to Know Today: The September Cattle on Feed report was strongly bullish, with both the 1 September on-feed inventory and August placements coming in well below average expectations and below the bottom of their respective pre-report estimate ranges. China continues to buy U...
USDA’s September cattle on feed report was released Friday, with the total number of cattle in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity amounting to 11.2 million head, 101 percent of last year. Placements dropped in August to their lowest total for the month since records began in 1996...
Key Takeaways: The U.S. herd is stabilizing, but growth remains modest. Total goat inventory rose 1 percent in 2026, while meat-goat numbers increased 2 percent, which is not enough to materially reduce import dependence. Domestic slaughter is rising from a low base. Commercial slaughter incre...
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.