While India's edible vegetable oil imports are down and oil exports are up, reducing its forex exposure, the country will continue to depend on those particular imports because of one notable limitation. Situation Critical as Drought Hits South India The failure of the 2016 monsoon season is a contributing factor to the drought in South India, and the crisis just now seems to be unfolding. All 32 districts in Tamil Nadu have been declared drought-affected, and the state has sought a $6.134 billion relief package from the federal government. It has received $0.312 billion thus far or about 5 percent of the requested amount. 57 percent of the land in Tamil Nadu is rain-fed, but the deficit was 62 percent from northwest rains and 40 percent...
What You Need to Know Today: After a period of limited activity, USDA reported a sizeable 613 KMT in soybean export sales, including 330 KMT to China and 283 KMT to unknown destinations, potentially also China. The purchases represent a meaningful pickup in demand and bring China closer to ful...
The Trump import plan for 300,000 MT of beef supplies used for ground beef, i.e., lean trim, from September through November has, according to Secretary Brooke Rollins, brought some relief to beef prices. The Executive Order states that the Secretary of Agriculture will analyze and review the m...
Key Takeaways: Texas illustrates the assumptions underlying the 2025 FMMO reform; Idaho exposes their limitations. The Southwest order blend (roughly 27 percent Class I, 32 percent Class III and 31 percent Class IV) exposes Texas producers to every lever USDA adjusted, with a near-neutral proj...
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.