Regional News Grain shipments from Ukraine have been suspended (and, at this point, seem likely to remain so for at least a month) while shipments from Russia are disrupted. The disconnection of Russia from the global SWIFT international payment system will also further hamper trade from the country. Romania and Bulgaria are still able to export commodities via the Black Sea, but whether buyers will take the risks associated with trade from the region remains to be seen. Egypt issued a tender on Saturday for wheat with April shipment and the results are expected on Monday (sometime after this writing). It will be interesting to see from where the country receives offers and what risks it chooses to accept given the conflict in...
What You Need to Know Today: Russia rejected calls for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, including a proposal to halt attacks on civilian shipping that could help restore grain flows from Ukrainian ports. Tyson Foods announced plans to permanently close its Joslin, Illinois, beef processing facili...
We have described the long-term investment climate in crop and livestock production, using data primarily from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The data provided background on the current investment climate and outlook for agricultural capital formation. Our conclusion was that investment...
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.