Regional Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA Grain and feed ingredient importers in Turkey will find that import prices have increased considerably after a drop of about 14 percent in the value of the Turkish lira versus the U.S. dollar. Some experts are saying that the drop could extend even further due to a drop in investor confidence in Turkey. The drop in value was started by the firing of the head of the Turkish Central Bank on 20 March. One comment was made that the Turkish situation had been improving due to strong Central Bank actions but that now “defeat has been snatched from the jaws of victory” (@Brown Brothers Harriman). It is reported that Turkish charities have been sending wheat flour to...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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.