Export Sales and Shipments for August 25-31, 2023 Wheat: Net sales of 370,300 metric tons (MT) for 2023/2024 were up 13 percent from the previous week, but down 11 percent from the prior 4-week average. Export shipments of 316,600 MT were down 11 percent from the previous week and 1 percent from the prior 4-week average. The destinations were primarily to Indonesia (74,000 MT), Thailand (58,000 MT), Mexico (52,700 MT), Taiwan (52,400 MT), and Peru (33,000 MT). Corn: Net sales of 949,700 MT for 2023/2024 marketing year which began September 1. Export shipments for the period ending August 31- September 1 of 515,000 MT brought accumulated exports to 39,469,100 MT, down 34 percent from the prior year&rsquo...
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.