Indian Soymeal Exports Fall Sharply in December The Solvent Extractors' Association (SEA) of India this week reported that Indian soymeal exports in December 2012 totaled 494,456 MT, down 38 percent from the 798,041 MT it exported in December 2011. Exports of other protein meals (rapeseed, rice bran and cottonseed) in December 2012 totaled 50,490 MT, well below the 155,485 MT of other meals it exported in December 2011.SEA indicates India exported 1,883,677 MT of soymeal during April – December 2012. That was a 26.1 percent drop from the 2,549,824 MT it exported in the same period a year earlier. Exports of other protein meals during the nine-month period totaled 1,027,538 MT. Exports during the same period a year earlier totaled 1,385,6...
Key Takeaways: Brazil confirmed a Newcastle disease outbreak at a commercial turkey farm in Santa Catarina on 18 October, raising concerns about potential disruptions to poultry exports despite the outbreak being confined to a single facility thus far. Mexico and Malaysia have imposed nationwi...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Pakistan’s smaller wheat farmers have been holding protests to complain about the lack of a support price for wheat and the potential expansion of GMO crop production. They also want the reinstatement of PASSCO, the governme...
From WPI Consulting
Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.