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How Sweet It Isn't

Global surplus sugar stocks are at their lowest since 2010/11 and futures prices are at their highest level in six years. Yet global import demand continues to expand at around 1.8 percent each year. Brazil is the world’s largest sugar exporter, and it will begin harvesting a crop that is at least 7 percent larger than last year’s drought stressed production. Exports are forecast to rise by nearly 9 percent. While Brazil has switched to producing sugar more for food than ethanol, India is the world’s second largest exporter of sugar, and it is switching its emphasis to ethanol.  Notably, the global area dedicated to sugar production has declined in recent years. Sugar beet area is down around 10 percent and land harv...

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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.

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