Export Sales and Shipments for June 16-22, 2023 Wheat: Net sales of 155,200 metric tons (MT) for 2023/2024 primarily for Japan and Mexico. Export shipments of 157,600 MT were primarily to Japan (49,400 MT), Taiwan (36,300 MT), Mexico (25,200 MT), Jamaica (21,800 MT), and Guatemala (17,300 MT). Corn: Net sales of 140,400 MT for 2022/2023 were up noticeably from the previous week, but down 16 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 605,300 MT were down 9 percent from the previous week and 47 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Mexico (315,600 MT), Japan (138,300 MT), Colombia (53,400 MT), El Salvador (24,400 MT), and Panama (19,700 MT). Soybeans: Net sales of...
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...
The big news in the cattle markets yesterday was Tyson Foods’ move to close two more beef plants. One of them, the Joslin, Illinois, plant was shuttered immediately after the announcement. The other, in Eagle Mountain, Utah, is a case-ready plant that does not slaughter cattle. Tyson also...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Wednesday. In July, the CPI rose 0.1 percent, seasonally adjusted, and rose 3.4 percent over the last 12 months, not seasonally adjusted. The index for all items less food and energy, or the “core” infla...
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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.