Export Sales for 21-27, 2022 Wheat: Net sales of 348,100 metric tons (MT) for 2022/2023 primarily for South Korea (82,100 MT), Indonesia (63,000 MT), Mexico (60,800 MT, including decreases of 100 MT), Taiwan (40,200 MT), and Japan (26,500 MT), were offset by reductions for Vietnam (100 MT). Export shipments of 118,100 MT were primarily to Mexico (59,700 MT), Taiwan (35,700 MT), Trinidad and Tobago (9,700 MT), South Korea (8,600 MT), and Vietnam (3,200 MT). Corn: Net sales of 372,200 MT for 2022/2023 primarily for Mexico (193,000 MT), Japan (132,100 MT, including 107,100 MT switched from unknown destinations), unknown destinations (69,600 MT), Canada (23,100 MT), and Costa Rica (9,900 MT, including decreases o...
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.