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COVID Impacts on Poultry

As a major supplier of poultry to the Chinese market, Brazilian poultry experienced the pull of COVID-spiked demand back in March and April of this year. Chicken prices in both countries have resumed a more normal spread with China priced about 10 percent higher. However, back in late March Brazilian poultry was priced 38 percent less than the $1.38/kg market high price in the Middle Kingdom.  Brazilian prices have edged higher in June as COVID-19 cases have impacted the workforce for processing birds. Still, the impact on poultry prices has been more modest than the COVID induced value swings that impacted China’s most favorite animal protein, pork. ...

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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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