Oil Meal Exports Continue Upward Trend India’s oil meal exports totaled 1.403 MMT for the first six months of FY 2018/19 (April-March), up 0.119 MMT or 9 percent from 1.284 MMT a year ago. Rapeseed meal exports had the biggest gain at 0.601 MMT versus 0.3 MMT during April-September 2017. In contrast, soymeal exports were down at 0.392 MMT against 0.489 MMT during the same period a year ago. September 2018 was a slow month overall with only 81,511 MT of oil meals exported, down about 73 percent from 0.298 MMT in the same month of 2017, and soymeal accounted for 20,987 MT of those shipments against 102,212 MT a year ago. Oil meal exports to Southeast Asia (SEA) and Europe were up during April-September. For comparison with the same pe...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. and Chinese officials are expected to discuss agriculture and non-tariff trade barriers ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington later this month, potentially opening the door to additional U.S. agricultural purchases or improved marke...
The U.S. will observe Labor Day on Monday, 7 September. U.S. markets and the WPI office will be closed that day. The next edition of Ag Perspectives will be published Tuesday, 8 September...
Key Takeaways: Drought and changes to the multi-year trend in cow slaughter and retention have the potential to dramatically alter beef trim supplies and pricing, and WPI specifically models three different drought scenarios for fall 2026. Based on our models, WPI expects 90 percent lean...
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