U.S. Soy Export Sales Highlights Last week was a good one for U.S. soybean export sales and exports even though new sales were a marketing year low. Yet, the new sales exceeded the upper estimate of analysts queried by Reuters. Net export sales of soybeans in the week ending 12 November totaled 1,387,700 MT, all for export in 2020/21. That was 18 percent below the past foour-week average. The top sales were for China (1,060,800 MT). That included 528,000 MT switched from unknown destinations and new sales of 532,800 MT. The other top sales were for Mexico (155,900 MT), Spain (144,700 MT), Taiwan (83,400 MT), Indonesia (77,700 MT), and Egypt (74,900 MT). These and other sales were partially offset by reductions for unknown of (436,600 MT)...
What You Need to Know Today: USDA reports are delayed until Tuesday due to the federal holiday on Monday. Over the weekend, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Russia warmly welcomed and confirmed this ceasefire by conducting more strikes against Ukraine. Specific...
On Saturday, 10 October, at a campaign rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, President Trump said that the U.S. and Mexico would come to terms on a new trade deal, and he said Canada does not need to be part of the deal. Trump called the coming agreement with Mexico “great” but gave no d...
Key Takeaways: The United States has steadily lost global wheat export market share since the 1970s, falling from the world's leading exporter to a projected fifth place in 2026/27. The rapid expansion of Black Sea wheat exports, driven by improved productivity and export infrastructure, has r...
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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.