Wheat Argentina The disparity in wheat cultivation in Argentina is something rarely seen. Looking at the South and Southeast areas of Buenos Aires province, the wheat crops are large, beautiful and with a potential yield that is within historical or even above historical levels. Outside of that area, however, wheat ranges from regular to poor and very poor. Abandoned fields can already be seen as farmers have decided to chop it and make bales for animal consumption while others have released animals into the fields. There is a lot of variability and the mills in the central-north and north of the country are extremely concerned. With virtually no stocks left from the 2022/23 campaign and seeing that they will have little wheat in t...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. launches naval escort operations in the Strait of Hormuz as Iran attacks UAE oil infrastructure, escalating geopolitical risk and supporting energy and broader commodity markets Biofuel demand entering uncharted territory, with soyoil valuation increasingly di...
CORN Argentina In Argentina, after several weeks of intense and frequent rainfall, weather conditions have improved, with clear days, dry cold, and wind supporting both soil and grain drying. Harvest activity has resumed; however, producers continue to prioritize soybeans, limiting progress in...
Update for 6 April 2025: Last year, users pointed out differences between the 5-year averages reported in this app and what USDA estimates in its weekly report. The difference exists because WPI calculates average based on the last 5 years of observations for the current week. In cases where ob...
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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.