Regional News International demand for wheat has picked up after the recent decline in prices with Egypt and Algeria issuing large tenders last week. Egypt’s GASC set a deadline of 12 August for its large tender for over 3 MMT in several tranches, and early results indicate Ukraine submitted the lowest offer for 1-15 October shipment at $244/MT FOB for 60 KMT. The weather in Europe remains challenging for summer crop development as above normal heat blankets the continent over the next two weeks. Western Europe should see slightly above-average precipitation in the next 2-5 days before turning drier next week while Eastern Europe and the Black Sea remain well below normal for the next 15 days at least. The heat and dryne...
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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.