Export Sales and Shipments for July 5-11, 2024. Wheat: Net sales of 578,500 metric tons (MT) for 2024/2025 were up noticeably from the previous week and up 1 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 630,900 MT were up noticeably from the previous week and up 96 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Mexico (140,100 MT), South Korea (119,000 MT), Taiwan (97,300 MT), China (67,300 MT), and Peru (58,800 MT). Corn: Net sales of 437,800 MT for 2023/2024 were down 19 percent from the previous week and 10 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 1,103,800 MT were up 26 percent from the previous week, but unchanged from the prior 4-week average. T...
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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.