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Mercosur Regional Analysis

Soybean selling by Argentine farmers is projected to substantially increase going into June, potentially to a record level, as a result of the increased harvest pace and present pricing conditions. Brazil The Brazilian soybean harvest is approximately 85 percent complete, according to a survey by AgRural. The number exceeds the rate of 78 percent a year ago and the five-year average of 83 percent. Total Brazilian soybean production is estimated by AgRural to be 85.6 MMT. That number will be revised around the first of May. The rate of harvest in Rio Grande do Sul jumped from 41 percent to 65 percent in seven days. Export prices for Brazilian soybeans recently declined by about 3.4 percent and prices are currently at about $521/MT in compa...

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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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