Export Sales and Shipments for June 21-27, 2024 Wheat: Net sales of 805,300 metric tons (MT) for 2024/2025 primarily for Mexico (154,700 MT), the Philippines (154,400 MT, including decreases of 1,500 MT), Taiwan (104,200 MT), Brazil (90,000 MT), and South Korea (67,400 MT), were offset by reductions for Jamaica (1,500 MT). Export shipments of 308,600 MT were primarily to Indonesia (75,500 MT), the Philippines (64,400 MT), South Korea (41,100 MT), the Dominican Republic (31,900 MT), and Nigeria (26,300 MT). Corn: Net sales of 357,200 MT for 2023/2024 were down 34 percent from the previous week and 57 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 894,400 MT were down 24 percent from the previous week and 34 percent...
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.