Brazilian Processors Squeezed by China’s Soybean Purchases Despite a record soybean crop in 2018, Brazil’s processors are not having the banner year that might be expected. This is because 69.2 MMT were exported during February-September with a record amount, almost the entire volume, shipped to China. That was the result of higher Chinese demand stemming from the unresolved trade dispute with the U.S. The soybean processing association Abiove today raised its forecast for Brazil’s soybean production in the current crop year from 76.1 MMT to 77 MMT. Chinese processors still want more Brazilian soybeans, however, and are bidding up the price to obtain them. Meanwhile, Brazil’s s crushers have been operating at a los...
What You Need to Know Today: Russia rejected calls for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, including a proposal to halt attacks on civilian shipping that could help restore grain flows from Ukrainian ports. Tyson Foods announced plans to permanently close its Joslin, Illinois, beef processing facili...
The big news in the cattle markets yesterday was Tyson Foods’ move to close two more beef plants. One of them, the Joslin, Illinois, plant was shuttered immediately after the announcement. The other, in Eagle Mountain, Utah, is a case-ready plant that does not slaughter cattle. Tyson also...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Wednesday. In July, the CPI rose 0.1 percent, seasonally adjusted, and rose 3.4 percent over the last 12 months, not seasonally adjusted. The index for all items less food and energy, or the “core” infla...
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.