Export Sales and Shipments for August 16-22, 2024. Wheat: Net sales of 532,100 metric tons (MT) for 2024/2025 were up 8 percent from the previous week and 53 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 576,800 MT were up 23 percent from the previous week and 20 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Japan (100,700 MT, including 49,900 MT - late), Mexico (77,500 MT, including 30,500 MT - late), Vietnam (66,100 MT), Ecuador (56,100 MT), and South Korea (55,000 MT). Corn: Net sales of 15,300 MT for 2023/2024--a marketing-year low--were down 87 percent from the previous week and 93 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 1,048,900 MT were down 9 perce...
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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.