Regional News Russia plans to bring an additional 6 million hectares (Mha) of land into agricultural production by 2024, per the country’s ag ministry. The country noted that an estimated 9.6 Mha of arable land is still undeveloped, and two-thirds of that will likely enter production in the next four years as Russia expands oilseed production. Ukraine’s 2020/21 wheat exports total 9.6 MMT as of 19 October, accounting for 55 percent of the 17.5 MMT export quota set by the country’s ag and trade ministries. France’s September wheat exports were the lowest in 11 years, according to recent government data. Through 13 October, Ukraine’s State Statistics Service has reported the following...
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.