Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA Egypt is very concerned that the problems between Russia and Ukraine will push up world wheat prices and limit availability. In 2021, 85 percent of Egypt’s 12.9 MMT of wheat imports came from Russia and the Ukraine. Egypt is expected to need 21.3 MMT of wheat in 2021/22 with about 9 MMT being locally grown. Egypt may turn to supplies of wheat from India and Brazil if the Black Sea situation gets more difficult. Egypt reports that the recent 10-day storms have not damaged the wheat crop and forecasts of 10.5 MMT of wheat production still look reachable. According to reports in Egypt, wheat planting will need to increase by at least 35 percent with increased yield levels i...
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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.