Grains Wheat According to the Buenos Aires Grain Exchange, 87 percent of the expected wheat area has been planted, currently covering 6 Mha (compared to 6.3 Mha in the previous season). In contrast, the Rosario Grain Exchange estimates 5.4 Mha of seeded area (compared to 5.9 Mha in the previous season) and a production of 15.6 MMT (MMT). In either case, both figures represent a significant reduction in planted area. Production, however, is expected to increase year-over-year, considering that the previous season was a failure with a harvest of only 11.5 MMT. It seems that the "El Niño" weather pattern is starting to gain more strength and there are increasing rainfall events in South America. Last week, all the planted wheat area...
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We have described the long-term investment climate in crop and livestock production, using data primarily from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The data provided background on the current investment climate and outlook for agricultural capital formation. Our conclusion was that investment...
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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.