The Case for an Average U.S. Soybean Yield Below USDA’s Forecast USDA’s most recent forecast for the average U.S. soybean yield in 2019 is 47.9 bushels per acre (3.22 MT/hectare). That is below the average of the last 3 years. However, is it still too high? A look at the most recent soybean condition report suggests it likely is. Monday’s crop condition report indicated that 54 percent of the soybeans in the 118 states surveyed by USDA were rated as either good or excellent. That compares with the average a year ago of 68 percent. However, in the key state of Illinois only 43 percent were rated as good or excellent versus 80 percent a year ago. In Indiana and Ohio, the percentage of good or excellent was 31 and 33 percen...
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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.