Export Sales and Shipments for January 16-22, 2026 Wheat: Net sales of 558,200 metric tons (MT) for 2025/2026 were down 10 percent from the previous week, but up noticeably from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 378,800 MT were up 2 percent from the previous week and 19 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to South Korea (111,400 MT), Mexico (105,600 MT), Nigeria (90,500 MT), Japan (50,500 MT), and Vietnam (13,300 MT). Corn: Net sales of 1,648,900 MT for 2025/2026 were down 59 percent from the previous week, but up 5 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 1,671,500 MT were up 17 percent from the previous week and 16 percent from the prior 4-week average. Th...
What You Need to Know Today: Crude oil prices dropped sharply with traffic flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. There were reports that Iran was behind an attack on a cargo ship near the coast of Oman, which would be a violation of the memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran. Pr...
On Wednesday, the White House submitted a national security supplemental spending request for $87.6 billion. The majority of the request includes funding for the conflict in the Middle East, but there are agricultural provisions as well. The supplemental funding package includes more than $11 b...
Can we really expect a bushel of corn to carry an environmental passport throughout the entire food system? One that reliably documents its carbon footprint, biodiversity impacts, water use, soil carbon, and other environmental attributes all the way from the farm field to the consumer? This is...
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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.