Export Sales and Shipments for March 6-12, 2026. Wheat: Net sales of 189,900 metric tons (MT) for 2025/2026 were down 58 percent from the previous week and 36 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 383,100 MT were down 11 percent from the previous week and 7 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Mexico (92,100 MT), the Philippines (62,600 MT), Bangladesh (56,700 MT), South Korea (47,400 MT), and the Dominican Republic (40,000 MT). Corn: Net sales of 1,171,800 MT for 2025/2026 were down 22 percent from the previous week and 18 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 1,749,800 MT were up 4 percent from the previous week, but unchanged from the prior 4-week average. The...
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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.