Wheat: Note – First week of the New Crop year: Hence, Net sales of 325,900 MT for the 2021/2022 marketing year, which began June 1, were primarily for South Korea (80,300 MT), the Philippines (60,200 MT, including decreases of 32,900 MT), unknown destinations (45,000 MT), Honduras (39,500 MT), and Nigeria (37,300 MT). A total of 837,100 MT in sales were carried over from the 2020/2021 marketing year, which ended May 31. Exports for the period ending May 31, of 459,500 MT brought accumulated exports to 24,806,600 MT, virtually unchanged from the prior year’s total of 24,812,200 MT. The destinations were primarily to the Philippines (177,600 MT), Mexico (65,200 MT), China (63,000 MT), Nigeria (36,800 MT), a...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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.