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WASDE Soybeans Jan 2025

USDA’s January estimate is for U.S. soybean production is down 95 million bushels to 4.366 billion bushels due to a 1 bushel per acre yield reduction – to average U.S. soybean yield of 50.7 bushels per acre. The U.S. season-average soybean price for 2024/25 is projected at $10.20 per bushel, unchanged from last month. The soybean meal price is raised $10 to $310 per short ton. The soybean oil price is unchanged at 43 cents per pound. Global soybean exports are unchanged while global soybean crush is raised 1.9 million tons to 349.3 million. Global soybean ending stocks are forecast at 128.4 million tons, down 3.5 million, on lower stocks for the United States and Brazil...

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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.

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