China’s domestic soymeal inventories decreased last week to 1.32 MMT, down 150,000 MT or 10.2 percent from the previous week, largely because of two factors. Oilseeds Soymeal Inventories Head Lower China’s domestic soymeal inventories decreased last week to 1.32 MMT, down 150,000 MT or 10.2 percent from the previous week. Overall, the total was 680,000 MT greater than the same week in 2014. Thanks to price reductions from processors followed by an uptick in downstream demand, movement of soymeal picked up in the last ten days. Among the surveyed regions, inventories in the south came in higher than the north. They declined 13.41 percent to 216,000 MT and 4.15 percent to 145,300 MT in Guangxi and Fujian, respectively. By contrast, soymeal...
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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.