Export Sales and Shipments for December 26, 2025 – January 1, 2026. Wheat: Net sales of 118,700 metric tons (MT) for 2025/2026 were up 24 percent from the previous week, but down 55 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 172,000 MT were down 60 percent from the previous week and 65 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to the Philippines (66,000 MT), Mexico (58,500 MT), Japan (33,800 MT), Haiti (7,000 MT), and Guatemala (5,200 MT). Corn: Net sales of 377,600 MT for 2025/2026--a marketing-year low--were down 49 percent from the previous week and 76 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 1,396,500 MT were unchanged from the previous week, but down 12 percent...
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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.